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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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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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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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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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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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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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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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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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