About Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert (French: [ʒozɛf ʒubɛʁ]; 6 May 1754 in Montignac, Périgord – 4 May 1824 in Paris) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which were published posthumously.
More quotations from Joseph Joubert
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
More quotations tagged with “poetry”
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
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