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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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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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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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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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