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Justice is the truth in action.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Justice
Action
Truth

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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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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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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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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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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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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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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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