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Joseph Roux Quotes

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
Friendship

"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."

"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills."

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."

"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."
Poetry

"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."

"A fine quotations is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."

"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."

"There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them."

"Philosophers call God "the great unknown" "The great misknown" is more like it!"

"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."

"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."

"Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
Experience

"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

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