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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Joseph Joubert

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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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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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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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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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