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Living requires but little life doing requires much.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Living
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Littles
Little
Much
Life
Requires

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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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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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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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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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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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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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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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