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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Lamps
Evening
Brings
Age
Life

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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt 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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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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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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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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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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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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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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