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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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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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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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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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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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The breath of the mind is attention.
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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