Joseph Joubert

Writer

1754-05-07

Books by Joseph Joubert

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Tenderness is the repose of passion.
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When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
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Everything has its poetry. 94
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Everything has its poetry. 94
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Tenderness is the repose of passion.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
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When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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