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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Mediocre
Sentiments
Intelligence
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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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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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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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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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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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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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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