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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Happiness
Use
Stuff
Given
Passions

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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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