Joseph Joubert Quotes on Ethics
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Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.