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To see the world is to judge the judges.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Philosopher
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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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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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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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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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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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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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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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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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