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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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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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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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