Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. – Joseph Joubert
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. – Joseph Joubert
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: thats a good thing born from a bad thing. – Joseph Joubert
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. – Joseph Joubert
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont