Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Joseph Joubert on Love
1754–1824 France
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All the passions seek after whatever nourishes them. Fear loves the idea of danger.
Pearls of Thought (1881)
Pearls of Thought (1881)
Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Animals love the people who talk to them.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
It is impossible to love the same person twice.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Joubert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.