Quote #5

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

More from Joseph Joubert

  1. All beings come from little, and little is needed for them to come to nothing.
  2. All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
  3. All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
  4. Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
  5. A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
  6. Ask the young. They know everything.
  7. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
  8. Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

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