The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. - Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie. - Joseph Joubert
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. - Joseph Joubert
The mind's direction is more important than its progress. - Joseph Joubert
It is an aspect of happiness to suppose we all deserve it. - Joseph Joubert
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees. - Joseph Joubert
لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة - Joseph Joubert
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. - Joseph Joubert
Children have more need of models than of critics. - Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert