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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
Ornaments
Modesty
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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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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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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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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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