Joseph Roux

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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."
  • "Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
  • "Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."
  • "The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."
  • "The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."

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