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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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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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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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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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