Joseph Joubert Is Quotations

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

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.