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Space is the stature of God.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
God
Space
Stature

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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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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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