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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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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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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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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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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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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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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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