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Joseph Joubert Inspirational Quotes (170)

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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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