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Ornaments were invented by modesty.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Ornaments
Modesty
Invented

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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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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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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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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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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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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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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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