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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Atmosphere
Soul
Mind

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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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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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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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