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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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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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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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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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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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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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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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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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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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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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