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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

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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Cannonball
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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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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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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