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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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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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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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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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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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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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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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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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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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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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