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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Conscience
Taste
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Soul
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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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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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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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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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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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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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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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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