How many sacrifice honor, a necessity, to glory, a luxury?
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 4, #38 (1886)
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Roux, Joseph
Reason! reason! … As much as you like; but beware of thinking that it answers to everything, suffices for everything, satisfies everything. This mother loses her child: will reason comfort her? Does cool reason counsel the inspired poet, the heroic warrior, the lover? Reason guides but a small part of man, and that the least interesting. The rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 4, #95 (1886)
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Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 5, #24 (1886)
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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 1, #74 (1886)
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Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #28 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #85 (1886)
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #88 (1886)
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Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 5 “Joy, Suffering, Fortune,” #22 (1886) [tr. Hapgood]
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 5, #37 (1886)
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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 (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 9, #54 (1886)
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Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest, 5.56 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest, 5.60 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]