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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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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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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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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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