Quote #33
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Liberty! Liberty! In all things let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.
- Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
- Justice is the truth in action.
- Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
- It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
- Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
- It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
- Misery is almost always the result of thinking.