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Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Eternity
Space
Place
Time

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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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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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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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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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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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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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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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