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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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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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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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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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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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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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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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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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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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