Joseph Roux Quotes & Sayings

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

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. — Joseph Roux

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. — Joseph Roux

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. — Joseph Roux

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul. — Joseph Roux

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

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. — Joseph Roux

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. — Joseph Roux

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

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. — Joseph Roux

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