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• The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

  Joseph Joubert

  Simple, Simplicity, Half

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Justice is the right of the weakest.

  Joseph Joubert

  Justice

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• Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

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  Religion, Virtue

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• There are those to whom one must advise madness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Madness, Advise

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• Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

  Joseph Joubert

  May, Praise, Innocent

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• To see the world is to judge the judges.

  Joseph Joubert

  Travel, Judging, World

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• All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

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  Luxury, Taste, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.108

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• Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

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  Justice, Waking, Speak

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• Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

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  Giving, Soul, Flavor

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• The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

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  Chastity, Senses, Supreme

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• In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

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  Dream, Believe, Acting

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Writing, Ambition

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

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• Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

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  Enmity, Today, Emotion

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• The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

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  Pain, Mind, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.141

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• Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

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  Play, Ideas, Clarity

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

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• Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

  Joseph Joubert

  Education, Lax, Cold

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

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• In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Clothes, Age, Youth

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

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• Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

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  Flower, Science, Animal

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

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  Appreciate, Crucible, Criticism

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• Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

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  Wise, Fashion, Often Is

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• I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

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  Mean, Men, Coins

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• If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

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  Warrior, Authority, Wells

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• Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

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  Book, Excess, Littles

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

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  Order, Soul, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

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  Essence, Ideas, Giving

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

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