Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse
Joseph Roux
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
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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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Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers
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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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In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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We love justice greatly, and just men but little
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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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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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
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