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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Ideas
Polish
Words

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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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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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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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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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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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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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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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