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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Great souls are harmonious.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
No labor is hopeless.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!
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By AnonymPhilibert Joseph Roux
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
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