Joseph Joubert Quotes

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

Enseigner, c'est apprendre deux fois

The soul paints itself in our machines.

Everything has its poetry. 94

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102