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Work like you don't need the money.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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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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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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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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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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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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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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