„Вместо того, чтобы сетовать, что роза имеет шипы, я радуюсь тому, что среди шипов растет роза.“Жозеф Жубер
„Если мы потратим свою жизнь на любовь, у нас не останется времени на то, чтобы жаловаться или чувствовать себя несчастными.“Жозеф Жубер
„Разум может подсказать, чего следует избегать, и только сердце говорит, что следует делать.“Жозеф Жубер
„К историческому повествованию должно присовокупить лишь такие рассуждения, до которых здравомыслящий читатель не может дойти своим умом.“Жозеф Жубер
“Neither in the arts, nor in logic, nor in life should an idea by in any way treated as a thing.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Divorce. Its existence and use should be determined only by the interests of the children.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Perhaps (and probably) it would be true to say that we cannot conceive of anything except what we can see in our minds.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“In living, one learns how to read. (How, and with what result.)”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“To be capable of respect is, in these days, almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Enter oneself (we say). When one enters oneself, one sees God.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“The talkative person is one who speaks more than he thinks. Someone who thinks a great deal and talks a great deal is never considered a talkative person. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Necessity can make a doubtful action innocent, but it cannot make it commendable.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Strength is not energy. Some writers have more muscles than talent.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“The truth. They make it consist of nothing they cannot prove. The greatest happiness they find in it is being able to put forth incontestable assertions. This is what they like, and they consider it a sign of prestige, a prerogative, a power, a dignity, etc., a liberation from error.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“In these times when, to express ourselves, we must speak in a way others do not.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“When I had the strength, I did not have the patience. I have the patience today and I no longer have the power.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Properly speaking, man inhabits only his head and his heart. All other places are vainly before his eyes, at his sides, and under his feet: he himself is not there at all.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“What you call weakness comes from the strength of friendship.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
