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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.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Joseph Roux

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Joseph Roux

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Joseph Roux

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

Joseph Roux

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

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Joseph Roux

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Joseph Roux

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Joseph Roux

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

Joseph Roux

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

Joseph Roux

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

Joseph Roux

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

Joseph Roux

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Joseph Roux

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Joseph Roux