Quotes by Joseph Roux

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.

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

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

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

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.

Solitude vivifies isolation kills.

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