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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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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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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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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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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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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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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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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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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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