Quote #60
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
More from Joseph Joubert
- The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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- The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
- Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
- The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
- Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
- The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.