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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
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Joseph Roux
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Joseph Roux
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Joseph Roux
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Joseph Roux
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
Joseph Roux
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Joseph Roux
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux
