Joseph Joubert Quotes on Morality
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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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.
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True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.