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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
Writer
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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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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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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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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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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