Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève.
Quotes from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert — Joseph Joubert
1754–1824 France
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Wicked people have nothing human about them except passions: they are almost their virtues.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Everyone makes and has need of making a world other than the one he sees.
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Everything is game except what makes the soul better or worse.
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One always adds a little of one's soul to what one thinks.
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One can advance a long time in life without aging.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
God has commanded time to console the afflicted.
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God made life to be lived and not to be known.
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Animals love the people who talk to them.
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Neither in the arts, nor in logic, nor in life should an idea by in any way treated as a thing.
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.
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When the last word is always the one that offers itself first, the work becomes difficult.
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A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Joubert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.