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Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
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God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.
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In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.
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What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?
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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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The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
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All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
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He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.
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There is something divine about the ideas of space and eternity which is wanting in those of pure duration and simple extension.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.
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In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.
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If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.
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Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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I never like evergreen trees. There is something black in their green and cold in their shade, something dry, pointed and prickly in their leaves. As besides, they lose nothing and have nothing to fear, they seem to me without feeling, and therefore interest me little.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
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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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Joseph Joubert
Born:
May 7, 1754
Died:
May 4, 1824
(aged 69)
Bio:
Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously.
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