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Joseph Joubert Inspirational Quotes (170)

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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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Work like you don't need the money.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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