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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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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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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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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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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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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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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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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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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 single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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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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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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