Frases de Petrus Jacobus Joubert

“El que tiene imaginación sin instrucción tiene alas sin pies.”

“Libertad moral es la única libertad verdaderamente importante.”

“A veces los pensamientos nos consuelan de las cosas, y los libros de las personas.”

“Para descender en nosotros mismos, no es necesario elevarnos primero.”

“El azar es casi siempre favorable al hombre prudente.”

“Los poetas tienen cien veces mejor sentido que los filósofos. Buscando la belleza encuentran más verdad que ellos.”

“Una máxima es la expresión exacta y noble de una verdad importante e incontestable. Las buenas máximas son los gérmenes de todo bien: fuertemente grabadas en la memoria, nutren la voluntad.”

“Muchos van hacia la verdad por los caminos de la poesía. yo llego a la poesía, por los caminos de la verdad.”

“Es preciso hacerse querer, porque los hombres no son justos sino con aquellos a quienes aman.”

“Solamente el hombre religioso es siempre el mismo. Porque su dios no cambia. Es preciso considerar el pasado con respeto y el presente con desconfianza si se pretende asegurar el porvenir.”

“Es mejor debatir una cuestión sin resolverla, que resolver una cuestión sin debatirla.”

“Los niños necesitan más de modelos que de críticos.”

“Las mejores leyes nacen de las costumbres.”

“La imaginación es el ojo del alma.”

“El genio comienza las grandes obras, pero sólo el trabajo las acaba.”

“Hay que saber ser profundo con claridad, y no con palabras oscuras.”

“Los buenos modales son la flor de la humanidad. El que no es suficientemente cortés no es suficientemente humano.”

“El alma es una materia luminosa que quema sin consumir; nuestro cuerpo es el fanal.”

“La mejor admiración es hija del conocimiento. Nada hace más honor a una mujer que su paciencia, y nada la honra menos que la paciencia del marido.”

“Dios ha hecho la vida para que sea vivida y no para que sea conocida.”

“El gran inconveniente de los nuevos libros es que nos privan de leer los antiguos.”

“Un hombre sin defectos es un tonto o un hipócrita del que debemos desconfiar.”

“Buscando las palabras se encuentran las ideas.”

“Antes de emplear una palabra bonita hacedle sitio.”

“Cierra los ojos y verás.”

“Como la dicha de un pueblo depende de ser bien gobernado, la elección de sus gobernantes pide una reflexión profunda.”

“El placer no es sino la felicidad de una parte del cuerpo.”

“La razón puede advertirnos sobre lo que conviene evitar; sólo el corazón nos dice lo que es preciso hacer.”

“Lo que sorprende, sorprende una vez, pero lo que es admirable lo es más cuanto más se admira.”

“…the real truth. Now, you must have heard that the English – or as they are better known the Englishmen – took away our country, the Transvaal, or, as they say, annexed it. We then talked nicely for four years, and begged for our country. But no; when an Englishman once has your property in his hand, then is he like a monkey that has its hands full of pumpkin-seeds — if you don't beat him to death, he will never let go – and then all our nice talk for four years did not help us at all. Then the English commenced to arrest us because we were dissatisfied, and that caused the shooting and fighting. Then the English first found that it would be better to give us back our country. Now they are gone, and our country is free, …
— The Transvaal from Within, 1899, J. P. Fitzpatrick.
:Letter to Lobengula, dated March 8, 1882, which Fitzpatrick, writing from Pretoria jail, attributes to Joubert. The letter was found by Francis Thompson at Lobengula’s kraal, while negotiating on behalf of C. J. Rhodes.”

“They [the field cornets] should have seen to it that the bible be used in schools, as the law prescribes.”

“The heart of my soul is bloody with sorrow. … (Nonverbatim: I have done my utmost for peace, despite England pushing the Boers out of their inheritance bit by bit, and taking advantage of us in every conference and native war. My hope till the present war had been for a South African Confederacy under English protection – the Cape, Natal, Free State and Transvaal all having equal rights and local self-government.) … But now we can only leave it to God. If it is His will that the Transvaal perish, we can only do our best.
— The Diary of a Siege, 1900, H. W. Nevinson.
:In conversation with Henry Nevinson, October 2, 1899, at the outbreak of war. According to Nevinson, Joubert spoke English with a "piquant lack of grammar and misuse of words".”

“… de gevaare drygt aan alle kanten om een oorlog met die kaffers.
Translated:… dangers are arising on all sides which could precipitate a war with the Africans.
— Thomas Francois Burgers, MS Appelgryn, 1979, p. 71-72
:August 1875, informing President Burgers of the agitation by Cetshwayo and Sekhukhune, after Cetshwayo was prevented from attacking the Swazis, and a buffer zone was annexed by Joubert on May 25, 1875”

“They were the beginning of the fall. From them the call went out for protection by foreigners. The Gold fields were a source of misery for the Government. It was due to the gold fields that the country was drawn into war.”

“The heart of my soul is bloody with sorrow. … (Nonverbatim: I have done my utmost for peace, despite England pushing the Boers out of their inheritance bit by bit, and taking advantage of us in every conference and native war. My hope till the present war had been for a South African Confederacy under English protection – the Cape, Natal, Free State and Transvaal all having equal rights and local self-government.) … But now we can only leave it to God. If it is His will that the Transvaal perish, we can only do our best.”