Joseph Joubert

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"Children need models more than they need critics."	Criticism
"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."	Age, Choice, Friends
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."	Art, Honesty, Imagination
"Imagination is the eye of the soul."	Imagination
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."	Argument
"Justice is the truth in action."	Honesty, Justice, Truth
"Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!"	Freedom, Justice, Liberty
"Never cut what you can untie."	Miscellaneous
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."	Argument, Conflict, Men
"The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it."	Life
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."	Honesty, Love, Truth
"To teach is to learn twice."	Education, Learning, School
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."	History, Honesty, Hope

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