Quote #89
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.
More from Joseph Joubert
- We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.
- We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own.
- We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
- We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
- Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
- We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.
- True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.
- What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.