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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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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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