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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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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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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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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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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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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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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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