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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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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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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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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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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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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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