Quote #18
God has commanded Time to console the unhappy.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
- God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
- Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.
- Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, be…
- Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
- He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
- Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
- He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.