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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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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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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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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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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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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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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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