Joseph Roux

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

"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

"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…"

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

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

"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…"

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

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