Joseph Roux [1834-1905] French Rank: 106 Clergyman
Poetry, Happiness, Alone, Brainy, Experience, Friendship, Peace, Wisdom
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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. | Happiness | 101We 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, Peace | 102Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. | Alone | 103The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. | | 104Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. | Experience, Wisdom | 105Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. | | 106A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. | Brainy | 107Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. | | 108There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts. | | 109Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. | Poetry | 110It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent. | | 111The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. | Happiness | 112Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. | | 113There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. | | 114Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. | Poetry | 115Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. | Poetry | 116 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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