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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Unconquerable
Necessity
Fate

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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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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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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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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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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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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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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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