Joseph Roux

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

— Joseph Roux

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

— Joseph Roux

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

— Joseph Roux

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.

— Joseph Roux

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

— Joseph Roux

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

— Joseph Roux

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

— Joseph Roux

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

— Joseph Roux

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

— Joseph Roux

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

— Joseph Roux