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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Witty
Humor
Others
Men
Wit

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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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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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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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