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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
A stupid lie is one that can never make itself believed.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Piety is a kind of modesty. It makes us turn aside our thoughts, as modesty makes us cast down our eyes in the presence of whatever is forbidden.
Pearls of Thought (1881)
Madness is an illness of the brain, not of the mind.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
They cannot accustom themselves to lacking nothing.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Pearls of Thought (1881)
It is impossible to love the same person twice.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
A person who is never duped cannot be a friend.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Nothing is better than a justified enthusiasm.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
If I weigh myself down, everything is lost.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Let us remember that everything is double.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
To see the world means judging the judges.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The weakness of the dying slanders life.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
A temperate style is alone classical.
Pearls of Thought (1881)
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Pearls of Thought (1881)
I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
There is nothing serious in civil life except good and evil, vice and virtue. Everything else in it should be a game.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)