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What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.Joseph Roux
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Evil often triumphs but never conquers.Joseph Roux
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.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 that immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
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Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.Joseph Roux
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When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.Joseph Roux
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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.Joseph Roux
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At first we hope too much later on not enough.Joseph Roux
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.Joseph Roux
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Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.Joseph Roux
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Success causes us to be more praised than known.Joseph Roux
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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.Joseph Roux
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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.Joseph Roux
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Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.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.Joseph Roux
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Solitude vivifies isolation kills.Joseph Roux