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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Metaphysics
Contemplating
Reasoning
Math
Logic
Works
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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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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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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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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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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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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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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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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