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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
Stature
God
Space

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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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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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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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