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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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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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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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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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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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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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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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