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I did not have good eyes nor light in my mind that day. (Joseph Joubert)
The weakness of the dying slanders life. View quote
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Someone said of an asthmatic who was being very sweet and patient in his suffering: "One would like to breathe for him." View quote
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We are all old children, more or less serious, more or less filled with ourselves. View quote
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What our eyes see, our imagination can no longer see. The same thing cannot be the object of both kinds of seeing. View quote
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It is very difficult to be wise (through the mind); it is not difficult to be wise occasionally and by chance, but it is difficult to be wise assiduously and by choice. View quote
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When we speak, we write what we are saying in the air. View quote
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Beyond the brain, there is something that observes the brain itself. View quote
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Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored. View quote
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Democracy and slavery are inseparable. Why. Democracy as it existed among the ancients was no more than government by a number of men large enough to be called the people. But this designation is false. The true people, in such a state, the greatest number, the majority belong to the class of slaves, and slavery inevitably develops in a country governed this way, because it is impossible that those who spend their time making laws can make shoes and clothes, plant crops, work fields, etc. View quote
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Illusion or play. Everything agreeable is in them. (Joseph Joubert)
There are words agreeable to the eye (in the same way there are words agreeable to the ear). By a fortunate combination of the letters that form them or by the harmony of these letters. For each letter has its shape. View quote
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In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent. View quote
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In the same way crimes have increased laws, errors have increased explanations. View quote
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Courage (in a soldier) is maintained by a certain anger; anger is a little blind and likes to strike out. And from this follows a thousand abuses, a thousand evils and misfortunes that are impossible to predict in an army during war. View quote
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Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words. View quote
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Anger, which purges resentment. View quote
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They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser. View quote
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Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet? View quote
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Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant. View quote
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Thoughts that are light, clear, distinct, finished; and words that resemble their thoughts. Words that often retain their meaning even when they are detached from others and that please when isolated as sounds. (Joseph Joubert)
Think nothing outside their paper. View quote
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I have too much brain for my head. It cannot play comfortably in its box. View quote
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In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and voluntary abuse of pleasure. View quote
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The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue. View quote
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