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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

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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Writing
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Fancy
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Rooms

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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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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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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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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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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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