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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Literature
Religion
Science
Another
Men
Finds
Duty
Joy

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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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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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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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