27 Quotes by Joseph Roux

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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