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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

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 lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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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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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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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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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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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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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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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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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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