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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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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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Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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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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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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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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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Carnivorous animals care not only for their prey, but for the chase. It is their game, their pastime, their pleasure. All, in fact, hunt gaily - laughingly - so to speak.
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The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
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Antiquity! I love your ruins better than your restorations.
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Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
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Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
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Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.
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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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One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.
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A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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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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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.
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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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