“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“The people. They know how to know, but not how to choose.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“To be pathetic when we cry, we must cry without wanting to and without knowing it.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Let anger pass, make a place for it; do not impede its progress; do not disturb its development, give it the time it needs to die out, open a wide path for it.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“I have not seen you since, but you have often appeared to me in my dreams.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“No, men are not born to know, but they are destined for it.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Retreat often into your sphere, rest yourself in your center, plunge yourself into your element: good advice, which must be remembered.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Little people have few passions, they hardly have anything but needs.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“There is nothing serious in civil life except good and evil, vice and virtue. Everything else in it should be a game.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“"But he doesn't finish his sentences," (he said). And they don't finish their thoughts. — To finish their thoughts. — To finish one's thought! It is a long process, it is rare. It gives intense pleasure. Because every finished thought easily enters the mind. They don't have the same need to be beautiful in order to please. It is enough for them to be finished. The situation of the soul that has had such thoughts communicates itself to other souls and transfers its repose to them.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions — repressed.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Here is the desert. In this silence, everything speaks to me: and in your noise, everything falls silent.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Everyone makes and has need of making a world other than the one he sees.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“It is not simply a matter of distinguishing between good and evil, but also of not confusing what is laughable with what is not. To make laughable what is not is in some way to make bad what was good.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Those thoughts that come to us suddenly and that are not yet ours.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert