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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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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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