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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
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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