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Joseph Joubert A Selection from His Thoughts

A conscience to oneself, a morality to oneself, a religion to oneself!—These things, by their nature, cannot be private.

—Chapter VIII, No. 28.

Joseph
Joubert

Joseph Joubert A Selection from His Thoughts

Translated by Katharine Lyttelton

More than 900 aphorisms from the witness to the French Revolution.

Bibliographic Record Preface

Contents

Translator’s Preface

NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD & Co., 1899
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

I. Of God, Creation, Eternity, Piety, Religion, Preachers, Sacred Books

II. Of Man, the Organs, the Soul, the Intellectual Faculties

III. Of Minds and Their Nature

IV. Of the Passions and Affections

V. What Is Modesty?

VI. Of the Various Ages of Life, Sickness and Death

VII. Of Domestic Life, Society, Conversation, Politeness and Manners

VIII. Of Wisdom, Virtue, and Morality, of Law and Duty

IX. Of Order and Chance, of Good and Evil Fortune

X. Of Truth, Illusion, and Error

XI. Of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Abstractions, Logic, Systems

XII. Of Space, Time, Light, and Sound

XIII. Of Governments and Constitutions

XIV. Of Liberty, Justice, and Laws

XV. Of Customs and Habits, both Public and Private, and the Character of Nations

XVI. Of Antiquity

XVII. Of the Present Time

XVIII. Of Education

XIX. Of the Fine Arts

XX. Poetry

XXI. Style

XXII. Of the Qualities of a Writer

XXIII. Literary Judgments.

I. Writers of Antiquity

II. Religious Writers

III. Metaphysicians

IV. Prose Writers, Philosophers, Political Writers

V. Poets and Novelists

VI. On Some Romances of the Time

The Author, Drawn by Himself