401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.