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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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Philosopher
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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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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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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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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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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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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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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