Quote #59
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
More from Joseph Joubert
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- The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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- Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable.
- The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.