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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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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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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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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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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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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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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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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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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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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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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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