Joseph Joubert: Frases em inglês (página 8)

“We must try, as much as possible, not to mistrust anyone.”

“It is better to be concerned with being than with nothingness. Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”

“The hordes of words that fill our books proclaim our ignorance, reveal the obscurities that flood our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our moral books would contain only maxims and our books on physics and spirituality would contain only axioms and facts. Everything else is clutter and shows no more than our gropings, our efforts, and our difficulties.”

“These thoughts form not only the foundation of my work, but of my life.”

“In political institutions, almost everything we call an abuse was once a remedy.”

“Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.”

“The breath of the mind is attention.”

“I know too well what I am going to say. I know it too well before writing.”

“The phrase, "One dies before one has lived."”

“Everything we can measure seems small.”

“I did not have good eyes nor light in my mind that day.”

“The weakness of the dying slanders life.”

“Someone said of an asthmatic who was being very sweet and patient in his suffering: "One would like to breathe for him."”

“We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.”

“We are all old children, more or less serious, more or less filled with ourselves.”

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”

“What our eyes see, our imagination can no longer see. The same thing cannot be the object of both kinds of seeing.”

“It is very difficult to be wise (through the mind); it is not difficult to be wise occasionally and by chance, but it is difficult to be wise assiduously and by choice.”

“When we speak, we write what we are saying in the air.”