Quote #43
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
- Ornaments were invented by modesty.
- Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
- Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
- Never cut what you can untie.
- Our life is of woven wind.
- Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.
- Perhaps, for worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.