“Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”

— Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, 1883

About Joseph Joubert

1754 – 1824

French moralist and essayist, author of the "Pensées".

“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”

“We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven.”

“Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement.”

“Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.”

“Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or woman lost?”

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”