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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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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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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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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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