Quotes by Joseph Roux

• There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
• When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
• 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.
• Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
• The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
• The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
• Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
• There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
• Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
• Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
• It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
• Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
• Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
• Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
• 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.
• A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.