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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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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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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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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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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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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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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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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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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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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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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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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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