Joseph Roux Quotes and Quotations
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.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
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.
At first we hope too much; later on, not enough.
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.