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(481 votes)  Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(479 votes)  There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

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(478 votes)  Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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(474 votes)  A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

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(469 votes)  Children need models rather than critics.

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(468 votes)  Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

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(465 votes)  The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

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(435 votes)  Ask the young, they know everything!

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(268 votes)  Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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(251 votes)  The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

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(244 votes)  The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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(243 votes)  It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.

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(216 votes)  He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

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(214 votes)  What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

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

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(208 votes)  The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

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(205 votes)  There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

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(204 votes)  Space is the stature of God.

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(204 votes)  To teach is to learn twice.

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(199 votes)  Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

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(195 votes)  Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

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(194 votes)  Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

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(193 votes)  To teach is to learn twice.

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(193 votes)  Tenderness is the rest of passion.

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(192 votes)  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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(191 votes)  Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

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(191 votes)  Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

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(190 votes)  Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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(190 votes)  Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

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(190 votes)  Ask the young. They know everything.

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(187 votes)  We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

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(186 votes)  Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

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(185 votes)  The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

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(185 votes)  Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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(184 votes)  Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

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(184 votes)  Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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(183 votes)  One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

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(182 votes)  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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(180 votes)  Chance generally favors the prudent.

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(180 votes)  Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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(179 votes)  We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

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(179 votes)  The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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(177 votes)  You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

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(173 votes)  Ornaments were invented by modesty.

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(173 votes)  Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

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(173 votes)  Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

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(171 votes)  They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

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1754-1824, French Moralist

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