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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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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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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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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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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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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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