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Joseph Joubert
France
7 May 1754 // 4 May 1824
Moralist / Essayist
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On Writing:
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food
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On Poet:
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence
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On Grief:
Woman's grief is like a summer's shower - short as it is violent
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On Duty:
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together
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On Gift:
When you give, give with joy and smiling
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On Courtesy:
When my friends are blind of one eye, I look at them in profile
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On Credulity:
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect
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On Truth:
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight
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On Discussion:
We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own
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On Respect:
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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