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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
Modesty
Invented
Ornaments

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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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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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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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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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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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