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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

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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Wisdom
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May
Proverbs
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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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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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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