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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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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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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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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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