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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Motivation
Wisdom
Inspirational
May
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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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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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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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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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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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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