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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
Polish
Words
Ideas

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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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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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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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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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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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