Quotes from Joseph Roux

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

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.

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.

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

What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

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 that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Every large family has its angel and its demon.

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

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.

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

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.