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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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Friendship is the ideal friends are the reality reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
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We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
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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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The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
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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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Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
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Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
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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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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
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The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
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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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The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
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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 happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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