401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

A temperate style is alone classical.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.