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

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  Book, Reputation, Made

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.147

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• Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

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  Kindness, Grace, Modesty

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• When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

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  Heart, Doe, Harm

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

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  Fall, Lips, Surprise

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.25

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• Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

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  Exercise, Giving, Brain

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• Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

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  Silence, Poet, Fingers

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Justice is the truth in action.

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  Justice, Action

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• Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

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  Government, Giving, Choices

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

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  Book, Reading, World

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• To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

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  Needs, Guests, Enjoy

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• Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

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  Spurs, Morality, Curb

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• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

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  Education, Children, Parent

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• Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

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  Law, Discipline, Religion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Heaven is for those who think of it.

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  Thinking, Heaven

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.35

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• Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

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  Mother, Country, Nursing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

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  Religion, Multitudes

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.98

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• I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

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  Crush, Errors, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

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  Fire, Religion, Example

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

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  Love, Men, Self Love

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.61

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• I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

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  Littles, Moral, Prudence

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

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  Criticism, Charm, Should

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

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  Wise, Kings, Hands

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

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  Children, Pride, Men

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

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  God, Constrain, Knows

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• Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

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  Freedom, Soul, Important

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