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The soul paints itself in our machines.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Paints
Machines
Paint
Soul

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Work like you don't need the money.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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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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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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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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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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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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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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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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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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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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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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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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