Joseph Joubert Quotes on Life
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All beings come from little, and little is needed for them to come to nothing.
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All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Our life is of woven wind.
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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.
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The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.