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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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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Space is the stature of God.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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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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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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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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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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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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