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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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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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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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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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Children need models rather than critics.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
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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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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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