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• Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

  Joseph Joubert

  Punishment, Soul, Crime

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

  Joseph Joubert

  Together, Life Is, Togetherness

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• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

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  Grace, Feelings, Movement

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

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• What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Add

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• Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

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  Political, Curiosity, Mind

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• There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Volume, Sentences

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

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  Children, Animal, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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  Time, Passion, Vices

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• We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

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  Mind, Would Be, Esteem

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• Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Subjects

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• Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

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  Simplicity, Taste

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

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  Flower, Simple, Expression

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• He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

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  Friendship, Friends, Weakness

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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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  Way, Familiar, Familiarity

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.21

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• In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

  Joseph Joubert

  Gold, Use, Coins

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Fear loves the idea of danger.

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  Fear, Ideas, Fear Of Love

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.59

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Polish

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

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  Powerful, Writing, Never Giving Up

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• Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

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  Inspirational, Life Is, Duty

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.90

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• Innocence is always unsuspicious.

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  Innocence

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• In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

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  Ambition, Greed, Matter

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

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  Vanity, Would Be, Handsome

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• Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

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  Success, Reflection, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.32

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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.

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  Appreciation, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

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  Wisdom, Taken, Finished

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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