Quote #39
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
- Never cut what you can untie.
- Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
- Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
- Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
- Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
- Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
- Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.