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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Iliad
Bible
Poetry
Religion

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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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 soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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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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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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