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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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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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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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