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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
Spur
Curb
Spurs
Morality

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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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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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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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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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Space is the stature of God.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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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 should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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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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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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