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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
Writer
Contemplates
Metaphysics
Contemplating
Reasoning
Math
Logic
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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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 make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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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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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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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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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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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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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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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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