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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
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Lamps
Evening
Brings

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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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 should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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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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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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