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Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Joseph Joubert

Innocence

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Joseph Joubert

Debate

Question

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Joseph Joubert

God

Justice is the truth in action.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

People

Kindness

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert

Logic

Metaphysics

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

Genius

Labor

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Joseph Joubert

People

Shadows

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Joseph Joubert

God

Rest

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.