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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Arrive
Poetry
Truth

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Justice is the truth in action.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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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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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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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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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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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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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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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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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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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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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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