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4234EJoseph JoubertWe are all old children.
Ageing
Ageing
4239EJoseph JoubertDon't cut what you can untie.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
4238EJoseph JoubertClose your eyes and you will see.
Imagination
Imagination
4242EJoseph JoubertWisdom is the strength of the weak.
Wisdom
Wisdom
4228EJoseph JoubertAre you listening to the ones who keep quiet?
Listening
Listening
4224EJoseph JoubertWriting is closer to thinking than to speaking.
Writing
Writing
4221EJoseph JoubertMelancholy: when we have sorrows without a name.
Melancholy
Melancholy
4232EJoseph JoubertGod is the place where I do not remember the rest.
God
God
4240EJoseph JoubertMaxims, because what is isolated can be seen better.
Aphorisms
Aphorisms
4223EJoseph JoubertThe imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.
Imagination
Imagination
4241EJoseph JoubertWhat is promised to you in dreams is given to you in dreams!
Dreaming
Dreaming
4235EJoseph JoubertTo seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.
Wisdom
Wisdom
3143EJoseph JoubertHe who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Learning
Learning
4233EJoseph JoubertThe only good in man is his young feelings and his old thoughts.
Emotions and Feelings
Emotions and Feelings
4231EJoseph JoubertEverything is a game except what makes the soul better or worse.
Good and Evil
Good and Evil
4236EJoseph JoubertThought forms in the soul in the same way clouds form in the air.
Thinking
Thinking
4222EJoseph JoubertThe talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
Talking
Talking
4244EJoseph JoubertThe poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.
Poetry
Poetry
4247EJoseph JoubertThrough memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
Time
Time
4225EJoseph JoubertWe are in the world as words are in a book. Each generation is like a line, a phrase.
Generations
Generations
Dixxit 
