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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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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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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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