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• Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Stupid, Criticism, Taste

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

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Patience, Affair, Slowness

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• Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, Ambition, Fortune

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• We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

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  Conscious, Concern, Persons

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• Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

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  Solitude, Isolation

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• To love is to choose.

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  Love, Love Is

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• It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

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  Justice, Impossible, Ifs

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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.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Passion, Men, Feelings

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• The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Country, Cities, Giving

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• Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

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  Desire, Pleasure, Torment

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• What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Love, Dream, Two

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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.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Hands, Fool

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• Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

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  Friends, True Friend, Giving

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• At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Inspirational, Hope, Perseverance

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• The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Passion, Violence, Causes

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• The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Oratory, Mouths, Orators

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• Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  God, Philosophy, Philosopher

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• No labor is hopeless.

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  Hopeless, Labor

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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.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Experience, Gold, Littles

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• The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.

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  Distance, Space, Order

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• Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Names, Prejudice, Certain

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• We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friends, Men, Want

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

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Knowledge, Science, Poetry

  Meditations of a Parish Priest Ch. 1, No. LXXI (transl. Isabel Hapgood)

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• Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, Sex, Character

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• Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Lost Friendship, Experience, Illusion

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Joseph Roux, pt. 4, no. 28, 1886.

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