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Joseph Roux

1834-1905 ,  French clergyman & poet
Joseph RouxHe served as a vicar for many years in the area of New Aquitaine in France.
He punlished poems and the Journal Limousine (a journal still alive thanks to his recreation in the early 1960s) . He worked on a Grammaire Limousine for the Occitan language.

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We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

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

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

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

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

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

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

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

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.


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