Joseph Roux
"Solitude vivifies isolation kills."
16 Quotes
"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."
"نُسمّي من فقد أباه يتيمًا، ومن فقد زوجته أرمل. أما من ذاق مرارة فقدان صديق، فبأي اسم ندعوه؟ هنا تصمت كل اللغات وتخرس عجزًا."
Joseph Roux
"Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired."
"إن تجربتنا تتألف من أوهام فقدناها، لا من حكمة اكتسبناها."
Joseph Roux
"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."
"عند التعاسة، يرتاب المرء في كل شيء؛ وعند السعادة، لا يرتاب في شيء."
Joseph Roux
"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
"I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy."
Joseph Roux
"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."
Joseph Roux
"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."
Joseph Roux
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