Joseph Roux
Books by Joseph Roux
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Meditations Of A Parish Priest
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Quotes by Joseph Roux
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What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.
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What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.
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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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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
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We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
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Reason guides but a small part of man, and that the least interesting. The rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
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Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
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What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
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Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
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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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God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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