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Joseph Joubert

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

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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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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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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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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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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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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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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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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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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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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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