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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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Weakness
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Ambition
We may convince others by our arguments, but we can only persuade them by their own.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Women
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
—Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie.
—Joseph Joubert
Children have more need of models than of critics.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Children
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Luck
Success serves men as a pedestal; it makes them look larger, if reflection does not measure them.
—Joseph Joubert
Topics: Success
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