Joseph Roux Quotes

April 19, 1834 – February 1905

Abbé Joseph Roux (19 April 1834 – February 1905) was a French Catholic parish priest, poet, and philologist.

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

Part 1, LXXIV

More Joseph Roux Quotes

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

Joseph Roux
— Part 1, LXXI

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Joseph Roux
— Part 4, XXVIII (1886)

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

Joseph Roux
— Part 4, LXXXV

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

Joseph Roux
— Part 4, LXXXVIII

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Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Joseph Roux
— Part 4, XCIX

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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.

Joseph Roux
— Part 5, XXII

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

Joseph Roux
— Part 5, XXXVII

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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.

Joseph Roux
— Part 9, LIV

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