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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
Essayist
Philosopher
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Muscles
Strength
Talent
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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