"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert”, p.61
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