Quote #82
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
More from Joseph Joubert
- To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
- To see the world is to judge the judges.
- Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
- To teach is to learn twice.
- Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
- True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.
- Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
- Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.