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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
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Passions
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Happiness
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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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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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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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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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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