A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

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

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert

Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Joseph Joubert

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Joseph Joubert

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert

Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Joseph Joubert

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert

Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Joseph Joubert

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert

Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert

Ask the young. They know everything.
Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert

Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Joseph Joubert