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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
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Mediocre
Sentiments
Intelligence
Sense

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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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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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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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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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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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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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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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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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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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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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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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