"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert”, p.150
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