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Joseph Joubert
1754-1824 (Age at death: 70 approx.)
125 Quotation(s) Total:
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Indulgence is a factor of justice. |
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Insist on freedom of soul far before freedom of person. Moral liberty alone is important and necessary; the only good, the only use in other liberty is to aid that. |
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It is a great advantage for superior minds to have received only the education common to other men; for it makes them more fellow-like. |
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It is an element of all happiness to fancy that we deserve it. |
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. |
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It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. |
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It is easier to find beauty in regularity than in disorder; for the latter repulses beauty, and only by a singular power, a rare endowment of nature, can we unite them. So regularity should be given to beginners as their model. It is the privilege of the masters alone to set themselves another. |
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Let us bear a high heart and a modest mind. |
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Liberty is a tyrant governed by caprice. |
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Living requires but little life; doing requires much. |
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Maxims are to the intelligence what laws are to action: they do not illuminate, but they guide, they control, they rescue blindly. They are the clue in the labyrinth, the ship's compass in the night. |
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Men are born unequal. The great benefit of society is to diminish this inequality as much as possible by procuring for everybody security, the necessary property, education, and succor. |
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Men who never take back their words love themselves more than truth. |
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Misery is always the result of thinking. |
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Necessity can render a doubtful action innocent; but it could never make it praiseworthy. |
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Nothing shrivels up a man so much as trivial pleasures. |
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One must cultivate not only friends, but the friendly impulses, preserve them carefully, look after them-- irrigate them, so to speak. |
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Only choose in marriage a woman who you would choose as a friend if she were a man. |
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Ordinary actuality, stark realism, can never be the objective of art. Illusion upon a sound basis is the secret of the fine arts. |
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Our faculties, like our limbs, acquire by exercise more agility, more strength and suppleness. |
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