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• I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Country, Paris, Quitting

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.18

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Freedom, Soul, Important

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• Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Heaven, Religion

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• National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

  Joseph Joubert

  Literature, Fables, Ends

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

  Joseph Joubert

  Reflection, Light, Wings

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

  Joseph Joubert

  Success, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

  Joseph Joubert

  Miracle, Trickery, Credulity

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• Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Age, Quality

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

  Joseph Joubert

  Plato, Swans, Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth

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• Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

  Joseph Joubert

  Sex, Women, Wind

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• Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

  Joseph Joubert

  Doe, Instruments, Transport

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

  Joseph Joubert

  Humor, Wings, Mind

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• Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
  As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection,
  the word blossoms.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Perfection, Degrees

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

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• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

  Joseph Joubert

  Song, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.11

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• It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Truth, Easier

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Eye, Looks

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fire, Light, Flames

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Needs, Natural

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• Politeness smooths wrinkles.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wrinkles, Smooth, Politeness

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• A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Hypocrite, Men

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• One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

  Joseph Joubert

  Daughter, Simple, Men

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• The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Age, Lamps

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• Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Vices, Virtue, Calculations

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.87

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