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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Space is the stature of God.
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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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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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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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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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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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