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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Ills
Think
Thinking
Exempt

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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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 mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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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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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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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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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 always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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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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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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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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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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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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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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