Joseph Roux Quotes
Books by Joseph Roux
Best 12 Quotes by Joseph Roux
“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”
“Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.”
“Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.”
“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”
“Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.”
“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.”
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
“There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.”
“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.”
“What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.”
“When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.”
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“Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive.”
