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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Letters
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True
Character
Urbanity
Playfulness

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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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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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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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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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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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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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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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