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21 " To teach is to learn twice. "
― Joseph Joubert
22 " Space is to place as eternity is to time. "
23 " Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. "
24 " Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men. "
25 " Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand. "
― Joseph Joubert , The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
26 " The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. "
27 " Never cut what you can untie "
28 " لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة "
29 " Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. "
30 " Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. "
31 " Children need models rather than critics. "
32 " Imagination is the eye of the soul "
33 " Close your eyes and see. "
34 " We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own "
35 " Children always want to look behind mirrors. "
36 " Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. "
37 " God is the place where I do not remember the rest. "
38 " How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. "
39 " We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. "
40 " How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their for-tune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die ― but asleep! "