Joseph Roux

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”

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

“Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.”

“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.”

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