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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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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The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
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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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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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Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
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Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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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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At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
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Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
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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.
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
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Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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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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Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
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God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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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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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
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