Joseph Roux Quotes
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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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At first we hope too much; later on, not enough.
[Hope]
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
[Evil]
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
[Friendship]
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I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
[Happiness]
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
[Literature]
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Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
[Reason]
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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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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
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Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
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Success causes us to be more praised than known.
[Success]
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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
[Forgiveness]
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