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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Logic
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Metaphysics
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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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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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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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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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