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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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Men
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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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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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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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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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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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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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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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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