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Inspirational Quotes by Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert says that feeling can only be explained with enthusiasm. He notes that a happy life often comes from doing one thing well, and that poetry and truth are closely linked. He also warns against exaggerating life's evils or downplaying its blessings.

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It is always our inabilities that vex us.

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Justice is the right of the weakest.

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All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

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Work like you don't need the money.

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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

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When we love, it is the heart that judges.

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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

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The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

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We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

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If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience…

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Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

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A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;…

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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn…

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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…

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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

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Chance generally favors the prudent.

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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

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Close your eyes and you will see.

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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

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Heaven is for those who think of it.

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Ornaments were invented by modesty.

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“Enseigner, c'est apprendre deux fois”

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Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

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God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

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Tenderness is the rest of passion.

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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

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The breath of the mind is attention 128

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To teach is to learn twice.

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

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Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,…

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

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We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

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