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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Time
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Though
Friends
Moments
Truth

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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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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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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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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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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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