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The talkative person is one who speaks more than he thinks. Someone who thinks a great deal and talks a great deal is never considered a talkative person. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
...burdened with the unbearable weight of ourselves.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
What we say is similar to what we are.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Melancholy: when we have sorrows without a name.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Conversation. — Because they have many of those ideas that, to be shown, have need of eyes, gestures, voice, a whole multitude of signs that the written word does not accompany. One sees the soul in operation.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms; or, if you like, it blossoms from the word that presents it and clothes it.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The truth by way of illusion.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Thoughts that cannot survive the open air and that evaporate as soon as we take them out of the room. To put them to the test of isolation. Take them out of the book where you found them, they do not endure.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
To think what we do not feel is to lie to ourselves, in the same way that we lie to others when we say to others what we do not think. Everything we think must be thought with our entire being, body, and soul.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
There are words agreeable to the eye (in the same way there are words agreeable to the ear). By a fortunate combination of the letters that form them or by the harmony of these letters. For each letter has its shape.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Courage (in a soldier) is maintained by a certain anger; anger is a little blind and likes to strike out. And from this follows a thousand abuses, a thousand evils and misfortunes that are impossible to predict in an army during war.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Don't cut what you can untie.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
All religions = all women.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)