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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
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Wisdom
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May
Proverbs
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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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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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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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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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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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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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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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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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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