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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Everything
Make
Like
Eyeglasses
Blur
Vision
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Words

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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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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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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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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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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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