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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
Intelligence
Sense
Good
Mediocre
Sentiments

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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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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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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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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.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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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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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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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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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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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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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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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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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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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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