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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.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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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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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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