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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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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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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
Joseph Joubert