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All Quotes by author - Joseph Roux

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

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

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

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

" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" 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. "

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

" Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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