Joseph Roux 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.

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

» Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

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

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

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

» A fine quotations is a diamond on the finger 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.

» Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

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

» Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

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

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

» Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

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

» Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

» Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

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