Joseph Roux

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

— Joseph Roux

#love #friendship

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#comprises #gained #illusions #lost #rather

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

— Joseph Roux

#fine #good #hearts #laugh #people

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

— Joseph Roux

#everything #happy #nothing #unhappy

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#expressions #exquisite #poetry

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#man #rare #rare thing #succeed #talent

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

— Joseph Roux

#kills #like #nothing

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

— Joseph Roux

#composed #experience #illusions #our #rather

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

#fine #fool #hand #man #pebble

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

— Joseph Roux

#false #feeling #good #guides #man