Quote #86
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
More from Joseph Joubert
- True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.
- We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
- To teach is to learn twice.
- We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.
- To see the world is to judge the judges.
- We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
- To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
- We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own.