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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Joseph Joubert
Intelligent, Men, Age
"Pensees and Letters of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, 1928.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Joseph Joubert
Life, Age, Innocence
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Joseph Joubert
Business, Ideas, Age
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Joseph Joubert
People, Age, Honored
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.76

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

Joseph Joubert
Age, Lamps, Evening
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Joseph Joubert
Country, Travel, Age

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Joseph Joubert
Men, Age, Quality
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Joseph Joubert
Wisdom, Age, Lamps

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

Joseph Joubert
Clothes, Age, Youth
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Joseph Joubert
Children, Thinking, Age
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.123

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

Joseph Joubert
Ideas, Age, Moral
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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