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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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