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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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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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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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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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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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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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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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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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