7 Joseph Joubert Quotes on Morality

Joseph Joubert quotes on morality

7. Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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39. Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.

51. Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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57. Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

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.

85. True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.

86. Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.