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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Ailes
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Erudition
Wings
Feet
Learning
Imagination
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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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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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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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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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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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