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Joseph Roux — Portrait after a picture by inconnu avant 1905 (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Joseph Roux

French Catholic priest and Occitan poet

1834–1905

5 quotes.

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.
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 9, LIV
- Friendship
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 1, LXXIV
- Quotations
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 1, LXXI
- Poetry
- Science
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 4, XXVIII (1886)
- Experience
- Wisdom
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 4, LXXXVIII
- Success

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