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Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Joseph Joubert

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

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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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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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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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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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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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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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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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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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