Joseph Roux Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Holds, Immense, Impotence, Widower, Here, His, Him, Call, Friend, Orphan, Every, Unhappiness, Silent, Losing, Wife, Person, Man, Language, Known, Lost

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

  Joseph Roux

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finance, Literature

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

  Joseph Roux

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quotations

• Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

  Joseph Roux

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School

• Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

  Joseph Roux

  Topics in Experience, Wisdom

• There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

  Joseph Roux

• Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

  Joseph Roux

• Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

  Joseph Roux

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

  Joseph Roux

• Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

  Joseph Roux

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

  Joseph Roux

  Topics in Business

• We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

  Joseph Roux

  Topics in Justice

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

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• Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

  Joseph Roux

  Tags in Solitude

• In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.

  Joseph Roux

  Topics in Age, Funny

Joseph Roux (15)

Birth:	26th April, 1780
Death:	24th March, 1854
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Clergyman, Surgeon

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