More from Joseph Joubert

  1. Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
  2. Perhaps, for worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.
  3. Ornaments were invented by modesty.
  4. Politeness is the flower of humanity.
  5. Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
  6. Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and i…
  7. Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
  8. Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety

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