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Joseph Joubert Biography

Joseph Joubert (French: [ʒɔzɛf ʒubɛʁ]; 7 May 1754 in Montignac, Périgord – 4 May 1824 in Paris) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which were published posthumously.

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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.

Appreciate, Appreciating, Coins, Crucible, Gold, Scales

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Flower, Humanity, Meaningful, Politeness

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Grammar, Logic, Sense, Sound, Words

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm, Explained, Feeling, Feelings, Knows, Men

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

Art, Emotion, Event, Numbers, Wish, Wishes

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

Enough, Freedom, Justice, Let, Liberty

Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

Alive, Communicated, Example, Fire, Religion

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Witty, Men, Wit, Sad

To teach is to learn twice.

Education, Inspirational, Learn, Life, Teach, Twice

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

Brain, Brains, Exercise, Food, Giving

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Attested, Cease, Distance, History, Needs, Perspective

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Beauty, Bees, Place, Reason, Usefulness

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

Exist, Grief, Griefs, Joy, Perfable, Soul

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Happiness, Happy, Love, Misery, Result, Thinking

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Politeness, Smooth, Smooths, Wrinkles

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

Inspirational, Education, Learning, Feet, Imagination

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

Age, Ideas, Liberal, Moral, Opposed

Ask the young. They know everything.

Ask, Children, Everything, Humorous, Know, Time

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

Call, Choices, Consistency, Giving, Government, Necessity

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

Corrupts, Luxury, Moral, Morals, Taste

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