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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
Fate
Unconquerable
Necessity

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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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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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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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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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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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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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