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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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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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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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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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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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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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