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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
Writer
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Cannonball
Cannonballs
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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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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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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