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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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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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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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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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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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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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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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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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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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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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