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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
Necessity
Fate
Unconquerable

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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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