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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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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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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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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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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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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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