"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
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