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It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
[Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…
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