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Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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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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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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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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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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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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Work like you don't need the money.
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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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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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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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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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The breath of the mind is attention.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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Space is the stature of God.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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