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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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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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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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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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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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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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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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