Top 73 Joseph Roux Quotes
#5. Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
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#7. 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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#9. We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
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#10. When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
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#12. The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
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#14. 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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#15. Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
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#16. The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
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#18. A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
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#21. I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
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#22. 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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#23. What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
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#24. The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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#26. That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.
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#27. What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
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#29. Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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#30. Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
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#31. Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
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#32. The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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#33. History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
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#34. There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
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#35. The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
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#36. We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
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#38. Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
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#39. When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
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#40. The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
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#44. Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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#45. The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
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#46. Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
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#49. 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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#52. It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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#56. Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.
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#57. Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
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#58. Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
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#60. God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
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#62. Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
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#63. As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.
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#64. The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!
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#65. The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.
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#66. Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
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#67. 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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#68. We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
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#71. What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.
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#73. The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,
to all one says, or does, or writes.
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