Joseph Roux

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

“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...”

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

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

“I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.”

“At first we hope too much; later on, not enough.”

“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.”

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

“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 w...”

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

“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”

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