Joseph Roux Quotes
Most popular Joseph Roux Quotes
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
At first we hope too much, later on, not enough.
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
How many sacrifice honor, a necessity, to glory, a luxury?
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Our experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
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.
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.
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.
