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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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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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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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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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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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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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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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