Maxioms by Joseph Joubert
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Justice is the truth in action.
Justice is the truth in action.
