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5 Joseph Roux Quotes

Joseph Roux offers quiet, thoughtful cautions about self-trust and judgment.

Joseph Roux quotes

  1. 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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  2. Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

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

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

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