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Politeness smooths wrinkles.

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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Smooths
Politeness
Wrinkles

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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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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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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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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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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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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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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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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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