Joseph Roux cytaty

Joseph Roux – francuski ksiądz i poeta.

✵ 19. Kwiecień 1834 – 1905

Joseph Roux: 12 cytatów0 Polubień

Joseph Roux słynne cytaty

„Nasze doświadczenie składa się bardziej z utraconych iluzji niż z nabytej mądrości.”

Notre expérience se compose plutôt d’illusions perdues que de sagesse acquise. (fr.)
Źródło: Myśli, część 4, XXVIII, 1866

„Dobry cytat jest jak diament na palcu mądrego człowieka i jak kamyk w ręku głupca.”

Une belle citation est un diamant au doigt de l’homme d’esprit et un caillou dans la main d’un sot. (fr.)
Źródło: Myśli, część 1, LXXIV, 1866

„Co to jest doświadczenie? To biedna mała chatka, którą budujemy z ruin złotych i marmurowych pałaców naszych marzeń.”

Joseph Roux: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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Part 5, XXII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.”

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Part 4, XCIX
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“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.”

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Part 9, LIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

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Part 1, LXXIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”

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Part 4, LXXXVIII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

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

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Part 5, XXXVII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

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Part 1, LXXI
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

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Part 4, XXVIII (1886)
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

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

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Part 4, LXXXV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)