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

- Joseph Joubert

Victory, Aim, Should, Argument

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

- Joseph Joubert

Anger, Short, Temper, Remedy

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

- Joseph Joubert

Humanity, Politeness, Flower

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

- Joseph Joubert

Opinions, Constant, Ever, Fixed

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

- Joseph Joubert

Pain, Mind, Brings, Delight

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

- Joseph Joubert

Alone, Genius, Begins, Finishes

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

Beauty, Bodies, Movements, Garments

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

- Joseph Joubert

Logic, Works, Metaphysics

Space is the stature of God.

- Joseph Joubert

God, Space, Stature

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

- Joseph Joubert

Born, Observe, Few, Establish

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

- Joseph Joubert

Superstition, Only, Which, Base

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

- Joseph Joubert

Give, Pleasure, Transferred, Great Pleasure

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

- Joseph Joubert

Debate, Question, Better, Settling

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

- Joseph Joubert

Everyone, Charitable, Indulge

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

- Joseph Joubert

Young, Old, Passions, Vices

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

- Joseph Joubert

World, Enigma, Material, Disheartening

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

- Joseph Joubert

World, Act, Books, Acted

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

Abstract, Part, Many, Shadows

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

- Joseph Joubert

Future, Wish, Mistrust, Present

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

- Joseph Joubert

Love, Truth, Never, Retract

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

- Joseph Joubert

Vision, Glass, Obscure, Aid

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

- Joseph Joubert

Nature, Search, Expect, Honey

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

- Joseph Joubert

Marriage, Woman, Would, Whom

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

- Joseph Joubert

Children, Wrinkles, Always, Pleasures

Justice is the truth in action.

- Joseph Joubert

Truth, Justice, Action

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

- Joseph Joubert

Learning, Feet, Imagination, Wings

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

- Joseph Joubert

Learning, Feet, Imagination, Wings

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

- Joseph Joubert

Love, Other, Dad, Inspire

Ask the young. They know everything.

- Joseph Joubert

Young, Know, Everything, Ask

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

- Joseph Joubert

Mind, Important, More, Direction

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