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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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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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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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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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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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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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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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