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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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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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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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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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