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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Intoxicate
Enchant
Works
Beauty
Beautiful

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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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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