Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux
What is love? Two souls and one flesh; friendship? Two bodies and one soul.
friendship
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
people
poetry truth
Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural size, certain truths must be strained in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
distance order nature truth the-public
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
life wisdom experience
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
talent man
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
man rest
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
man
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
poetry science
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
emotions
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