„A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.“
Part 1, LXXIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
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Joseph Roux
Geburtstag: 19. April 1834
Todesdatum: 1905
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„The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.“
Part 5, XXXVII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
„Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.“
Part 5, XXII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
„It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.“
Part 4, LXXXVIII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
„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.“
Part 9, LIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
„Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.“
Part 1, LXXI
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
„Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.“
Part 4, XXVIII (1886)
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
„The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.“
Part 4, LXXXV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
