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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
Sense
Good
Mediocre
Sentiments
Intelligence

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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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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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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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