Joubert, Joseph

French essayist and moralist

• "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
• "To teach is to learn twice."
• "Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."
• "Imagination is the eye of the soul."
• "The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."