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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Children need models rather than critics.
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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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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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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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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