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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.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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