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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Nothing
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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