Quote #61

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 live righteously.

More from Joseph Joubert

  1. The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
  2. The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
  3. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
  4. The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
  5. Tenderness is the repose of Passion
  6. The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.
  7. Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
  8. The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

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