Joseph Roux Quotes

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

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

We love justice greatly, and just men but little. - 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

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

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

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. - Joseph Roux

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

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