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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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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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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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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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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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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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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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