The wish to be independent of all men, and not to be under obligation to any one is the sure sign of a soul without tenderness.
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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.Joseph Joubert
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die but asleep.
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The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Sound maxims are the germs of good strongly imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will.
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