Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
Tenderness is the rest of passion.
Joseph Joubert
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
Joseph Joubert
The chief objection to new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.
Joseph Joubert
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
Love Quotes
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Joseph Joubert
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.