Joseph Roux

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

— Joseph Roux

#distrusted #good #nothing #say #taken

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#learn #poetry #science #those #who

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#kills #solitude

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

— Joseph Roux

#committed #folly #least #might #ourselves

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#even #lacking #makes #think #unbearable

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

— Joseph Roux

#ripens #slowness #them #which

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#poetry #sunday #truth