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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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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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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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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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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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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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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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