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Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Joseph Joubert

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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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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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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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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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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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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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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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