Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.- Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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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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