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Joseph Joubert Inspirational Quotes (170)

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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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