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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Joseph Joubert

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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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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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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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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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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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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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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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