Joseph Roux Quotes

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

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

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

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

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

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

Solitude vivifies isolation kills.

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

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

At first we hope too much later on not enough.

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

When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

Evil often triumphs but never conquers.