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Joseph Joubert Quotes

«Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: boneless
«Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: calculation
«All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.»
«Chance generally favors the prudent.»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: favors
«Ornaments were invented by modesty.»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: ornaments
«Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.»
«There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: frivolity, stray
«The passions of the young are vices in the old.»
«Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.»
«Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: The Ear

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