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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

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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Fulfills
Destiny
Happy
Inspirational
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Men

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A temperate style is alone classical.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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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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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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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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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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