9 Joseph Joubert Quotes on Life

Joseph Joubert quotes on life

4. All beings come from little, and little is needed for them to come to nothing.

6. All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.

33. Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

42. Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

45. Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

46. Our life is of woven wind.

61. The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

64. The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

98. Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.