Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
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
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Joseph Roux
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.