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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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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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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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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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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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