"Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."

Joubert, Joseph on Duty
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"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."

Joubert, Joseph on Excellence
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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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"We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible."

Joubert, Joseph on God
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"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

Joubert, Joseph on Grace
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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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"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."

Joubert, Joseph on Mystery
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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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"To teach is to learn twice."

Joubert, Joseph on Teachers and Teaching
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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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"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

Joubert, Joseph on Writers and Writing
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"The passions of the young are vices in the old."

Joubert, Joseph on Youth
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"Ask the young. They know everything."

Joubert, Joseph on Youth
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