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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
Smooths
Politeness
Wrinkles
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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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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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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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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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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