Joseph Roux
Joseph Roux
call friendship holds immense known language losing lost man name peace silent
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.
gold illusions marble palace poor ruins
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions
deceives good
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good
art finance literature reverse today
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse
call god great philosophers-and-philosophy
Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!
happiness happy others
I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy
tears youth
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
composed experience illusions wisdom
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.