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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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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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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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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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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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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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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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