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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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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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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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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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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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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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