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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Characters
Involuntarily
Among
Repeating
Movement
Defects
Virtue
Echoes
Less
Movements
Character
Virtues
Live
Independence
Humility

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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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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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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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