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
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. – Joseph Joubert
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. – Joseph Joubert
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 is involved or not (whatever is involved might mean). – Douglas Hofstadter