Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
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Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
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We disjoint the mind like the body.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
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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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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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It is always our inabilities that vex us.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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