Quotes from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert — Joseph Joubert
1754–1824 France
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
A stupid lie is one that can never make itself believed.
Madness is an illness of the brain, not of the mind.
They cannot accustom themselves to lacking nothing.
They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser.
It is impossible to love the same person twice.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
A person who is never duped cannot be a friend.
Nothing is better than a justified enthusiasm.
If I weigh myself down, everything is lost.
Let us remember that everything is double.
To see the world means judging the judges.
The weakness of the dying slanders life.
I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Without fixed ideas, no fixed feelings. (Whoever has no constant opinions has no constant emotions.)
When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Joubert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.