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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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