More from Joseph Joubert

  1. Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
  2. Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
  3. All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
  4. Chance generally favors the prudent.
  5. All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
  6. Children have more need of models than of critics.
  7. All beings come from little, and little is needed for them to come to nothing.
  8. Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose as your friend if she were a man.

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