More from Joseph Joubert

  1. Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
  2. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
  3. Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
  4. The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
  5. Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable.
  6. The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to liv…
  7. Style is the thought itself.
  8. The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

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