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Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Fingers
Poet
Silence
Words
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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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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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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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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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