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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Blur
Vision
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Words
Everything
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Eyeglasses
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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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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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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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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