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• History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

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  Distance, History, Perspective

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

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  Angel, Moderation, Moved

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Spurs, Morality, Curb

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

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  Ideas, Age, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

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  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

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  Speech, Incorporation

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A temperate style is alone classical.

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  Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

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  Witty, Men, Wit

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• One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

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  Wife, Widows, Dignity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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