Edward Bulwer-Lytton vs. Joseph Joubert
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 – 1873
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, as which he selected Richard Clement Moody to found British Columbia.
"It is an inevitable law that a man, in spite of himself, should live for something higher than his own happiness. He cannot live in himself or for himself, howe…"
Joseph Joubert
1754 – 1824
Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which were published posthumously.
"To speak with his imagination, but to think with his reason."
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