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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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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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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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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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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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