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Joseph Joubert (born May 7, 1754 in Montignac, Prigord and died May 4, 1824 in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Penses published posthumously. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your comments or consult wikipedia
"Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."
Joubert, Joseph on Duty
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"Chance generally favors the prudent."
Joubert, Joseph on Fate
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"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."
Joubert, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
Joubert, Joseph on Ambition
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"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."
Joubert, Joseph on Goals
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"There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray."
Joubert, Joseph on Humor
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"Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."
Joubert, Joseph on Ideals and Idealism
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"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Joubert, Joseph on Imagination
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"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."
Joubert, Joseph on Imagination
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"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
Joubert, Joseph on Kindness
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"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."
Joubert, Joseph on Kindness
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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
Joubert, Joseph on Labor
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"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
Joubert, Joseph on Anger
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate."
Joubert, Joseph on Argument
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
Joubert, Joseph on Argument
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
Joubert, Joseph on Logic
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"Politeness is the flower of humanity."
Joubert, Joseph on Manners
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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
Joubert, Joseph on Mind
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"Ornaments were invented by modesty."
Joubert, Joseph on Modesty
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"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another."
Joubert, Joseph on Monuments
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"Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."
Joubert, Joseph on Painters and Painting
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"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."
Joubert, Joseph on Poetry and Poets
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"They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night."
Joubert, Joseph on Proverbs
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"Space is the stature of God."
Joubert, Joseph on Space
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"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."
Joubert, Joseph on Spirit and Spirituality
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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
Joubert, Joseph on Books - Reading
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"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
Joubert, Joseph on Books - Reading
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"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself."
Joubert, Joseph on Charity
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"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
Joubert, Joseph on Superstition
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"Tenderness is the rest of passion."
Joubert, Joseph on Tenderness
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."
Joubert, Joseph on Truth
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"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
Joubert, Joseph on Words
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"The passions of the young are vices in the old."
Joubert, Joseph on Youth
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