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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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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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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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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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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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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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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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