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## 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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## Also attributed

1. > Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
2. > Every large family has its angels and its demon.
3. > There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
4. > Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
5. > Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
6. > Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
7. > We call that person who has lost his father, and orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in importance.
8. > Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

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