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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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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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