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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
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Evening
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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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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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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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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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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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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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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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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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