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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
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Ears
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Talk
Someone

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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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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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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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