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    Joseph Joubert

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    Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. ↗


    — Joseph Joubert

    #children #pains #pleasures #wrinkles

    Space is the stature of God. ↗


    — Joseph Joubert

    #space #stature

    Space is to place as eternity is to time. ↗


    — Joseph Joubert

    #place #space #time

    Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. ↗


    — Joseph Joubert

    #capable #only #religion #souls #superstition

    The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. ↗


    — Joseph Joubert

    #book #books #divine #great #how

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


    — Joseph Joubert

    #conceives #delight #forth #mind #pain

    The passions of the young are vices in the old. ↗


    — Joseph Joubert

    #passions #vices #young

    There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. ↗


    — Joseph Joubert

    #acted #books #now #time #world

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


    — Joseph Joubert

    #more #never #opinions #retract #than

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


    — Joseph Joubert

    #consists #deserve #kindness #loving #more






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    When my friends are one-eyed I look at them in profile. More complete editions were to follow as were collections of Joubert's correspondence. External links
    1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article
    Catholic Encyclopedia article
    Joubert's works at Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French)
    Review of translations by Paul Auster.

    He alternated between living in Paris with his friends and life in the privacy of the countryside in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. More complete editions were to follow as were collections of Joubert's correspondence. From the age of fourteen Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse where he later taught until 1776.

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