{"author":"Joseph Joubert","author_id":"Joseph+Joubert","total_quotes":84,"quotes":[{"text":"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["man","woman","friend "],"id":492,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["flexibility","open-mindedness","thinking","thoughts"],"id":5281,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it  he fulfills his destiny.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["happy"],"id":5973,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["writing"],"id":6370,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it  he fulfills his destiny.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["happy"],"id":16729,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["superstition","capable","which "],"id":23172,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Think that day lost whose descending sun  views from thy hand no noble action done.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["one","day"],"id":28779,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Space is to place as eternity is to time.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["time","place","eternity "],"id":31605,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["memory","time"],"id":36197,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["book-lovers","escape","imagination","the-world"],"id":36812,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":84,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}