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Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously. From the age of fourteen Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse, where he later taught until 1776.

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Children need models more than they need critics.

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Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

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Never cut what you can untie.

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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

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To teach is to learn twice.

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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

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Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

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The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.

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Justice is the truth in action.

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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

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He who has imagination without learning has feet but no wings.

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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty

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Ornaments were invented by modesty.

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

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The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.

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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

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Kennedy Clarke
Great Quotes by a man of Principle. This asset , this quality of the man, could be felt in his quotations which are both uplifting and inspiring! Kennedy Earle Clarke
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