Quote #83
To see the world is to judge the judges.
More from Joseph Joubert
- To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
- To teach is to learn twice.
- To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
- True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.
- Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
- Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
- Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
- We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.