Joseph Roux Quotes

Joseph Roux offers quiet, thoughtful cautions about self-trust and judgment.

13 quotes

1. 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.

2. Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

3. Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

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

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

6. Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

7. Every large family has its angels and its demon.

8. There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

9. Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

10. Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

11. Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

12. We call that person who has lost his father, and 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 importance.

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