About Joseph Joubert: Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which was published posthumously.
Ask the young. They know everything.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Justice is the truth in action.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Never cut what you can untie.