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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Philibert Joseph Roux

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Philibert Joseph Roux
Age: 73 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 26
Died: 1854
Died: March 23
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Truth
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The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
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The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
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The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
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There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
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The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
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Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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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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Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
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When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
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Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
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Let us pray! God is just, he tries us God is pitiful, he will comfort us let us pray!
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Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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Friendship is the ideal friends are the reality reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
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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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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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Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
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