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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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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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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 heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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