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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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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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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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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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