401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.