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Category: Joseph Roux

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Wisdom, Lost, Illusions

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

Think, Even, Which

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

Happy, Unhappy, Nothing

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

Man, Fool, Diamond

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

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

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.

At first we hope too much later on not enough.

When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.

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 that immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.