“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

— 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.”

“To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?”

“Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.”

“In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”