Joseph Joubert Quotes about Giving

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When you give, give with joy and smiling.

When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Joseph Joubert

Giving, Joy

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.64

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Joseph Joubert

Appreciation, Men, Giving

Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

Joseph Joubert

Success, Men, Giving

Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Joseph Joubert

Giving, Soul, Flavor

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

Joseph Joubert

Essence, Ideas, Giving

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

Joseph Joubert

Exercise, Giving, Brain

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

Joseph Joubert

Government, Giving, Choices

Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”