Quotes from Joseph Joubert

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

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.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

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

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man