Almost all ingenious things are reasonable things. I say almost all and I could say always.
But often those who say them do not know that they are so. To make them so (manifestly), it would be enough to circumscribe or determine their meaning with force and in its proper proportion.
September […].
Every excess is a defect.
September […]
Voltaire too makes all his sentences in the same way, but imparts various kinds of movement to them.
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume I · Book Mode · Diotimos