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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
Writer
Proverbs
Motivation
Wisdom
Inspirational
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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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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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
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