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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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