Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously. From the age of fourteen Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse, where he later taught until 1776. In 1778 he went to Paris where he met D’Alembert and Diderot, amongst others, and later became a friend of a young writer and diplomat, Chateaubriand.
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Success serves men as a pedestal; it makes them look larger, if reflection does not measure them.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Success
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Ambition
Never cut what you can untie.
—Joseph Joubert
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Luck, Chance
Children have more need of models than of critics.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Children, Example
We may convince others by our arguments, but we can only persuade them by their own.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Women
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Kindness, Compassion, Service
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Weakness
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