Joseph Joubert: Frases em inglês (página 4)

“It's not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.”

“I am like Montaigne: "unsuited to continuous discourse."”

“The mind can only create errors. Truths are not created, they exist; one can only see them, disentangle them, discover them, and expose them.”

“The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.”

“What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.”

“When the last word is always the one that offers itself first, the work becomes difficult.”

“You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth.”

“To hide our eyes to make others believe we are hiding tears.”

“We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem.”

“Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.”

“To let the reader complete the symmetry between words and do no more than suggest it.”

“Ask the young. They know everything.”

“The time I once lost in pleasure I now lose in suffering.”

“The truth by way of illusion.”

“Wisdom is the strength of the weak.”

“The imagination is the eye of the soul.”

“People of intelligence often treat business in the way ignorant people treat books: they understand nothing.”

“I stop when I see no more light; it is impossible for me to write by feeling my way.”

“Whoever consults the light within himself (it is within everyone) excels at judging the object this light illumines.”