Joseph Roux Quotations

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.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them

Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good

We love justice greatly, and just men but little

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears