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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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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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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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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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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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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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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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