The passions of the young are vices in the old.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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