Quote #1
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
More from Joseph Joubert
- A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
- All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
- All beings come from little, and little is needed for them to come to nothing.
- All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
- All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
- Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Ask the young. They know everything.
- Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.