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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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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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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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