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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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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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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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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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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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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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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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