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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
Space
Place
Time
Eternity

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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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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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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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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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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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