Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

Double Minded

Duplicity

Eye

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A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

Essence

Giving

Ideas

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A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Natural

Needs

Writing

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A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,–defects which it is well not to correct.

Character

Hypocrite

Men

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A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Inspirational

Memories

Truth

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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Kindness

Love

Women

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A temperate style is alone classical.

Style

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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

Cannonballs

Real

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A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

Finished

Taken

Wisdom

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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

Abuse

Evil

Foundation

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