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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
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Curb
Spurs
Morality

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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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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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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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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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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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