Quote #10
Chance generally favors the prudent.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
- Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Ask the young. They know everything.
- Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose as your friend if she were a man.
- Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions- repressed.
- All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
- Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.