27 Quotes by Joseph Roux

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

We love justice greatly, and just men but little

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

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

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