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Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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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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Space is the stature of God.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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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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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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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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