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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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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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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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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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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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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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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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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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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 ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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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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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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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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