Quote #38
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
- Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.
- Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
- Never cut what you can untie.
- Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
- Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
- Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
- Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.