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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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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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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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