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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
Sentiments
Intelligence
Sense
Good
Mediocre

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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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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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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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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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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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