Joseph Roux Quotes

#1. It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

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

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#3. Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

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#4. Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

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#5. When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

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

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#7. Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

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#8. Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

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#9. 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.

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

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

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

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#13. Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

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#14. What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

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

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

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