More from Joseph Joubert

  1. Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
  2. Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
  3. Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
  4. Our life is of woven wind.
  5. Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
  6. Perhaps, for worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.
  7. Never cut what you can untie.
  8. Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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