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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
'Verbal communication can obscure as well as elucidate.'
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Joseph Joubert
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Joseph Joubert
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Joseph Joubert
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
Joseph Joubert
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
10.
Close your eyes and you will see.
Joseph Joubert
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
12.
Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
Joseph Joubert
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To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
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All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Joseph Joubert
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Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Joseph Joubert
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Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
18.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joseph Joubert
20.
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
Joseph Joubert
21.
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Joseph Joubert
22.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert
23.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
24.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert
25.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Joseph Joubert
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Work like you don't need the money.
Joseph Joubert
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Joseph Joubert
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Joseph Joubert
30.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Joseph Joubert
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
Joseph Joubert
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Joseph Joubert
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
Joseph Joubert
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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.
Joseph Joubert
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Joseph Joubert
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
Joseph Joubert
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How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
Joseph Joubert
41.
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Joseph Joubert
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
Joseph Joubert
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
Joseph Joubert
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
Joseph Joubert
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Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Joseph Joubert
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
Joseph Joubert
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
Joseph Joubert
