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From Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
- Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
- Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
- Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
- I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and…
- The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
- There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
- Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
- The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far-…
- Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
- The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
- Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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