Quote #6
All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
More from Joseph Joubert
- All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
- Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- All beings come from little, and little is needed for them to come to nothing.
- Ask the young. They know everything.
- All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
- Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
- A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
- Chance generally favors the prudent.