Philibert Joseph Roux famous quotes

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Ego #Tolerate #Egoism

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friends #Men #Common

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Prejudice #Awake

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Desire #Morality

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Modesty #Exquisite

The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Distance #Breathe #Poet

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Generosity #Wealth #Charitable

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Enthusiasm

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friends #Giving

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.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Distance #Natural

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#God #Grief #Heart

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friends #Reality

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friends #Men #Ungrateful

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Selfish #Past #Sorrow

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Country #Giving #Solitude

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Prayer #Writing #Tears

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Prayer #Trying #Comfort

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

No labor is hopeless.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Hopeless #Labor

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friendship

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friendship #Ambition #Temper

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friends #Men #Talent

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Justice #Impossible #Generous

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Regret #Experience #Pleasure

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Experience #Illusion #Lost

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Evil #Triumph #Conquer

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Forgiveness #Might #Pardon

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Happiness #Thinking #Joy

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Men #Justice #Littles

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Heart #Long #Mind

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Art #Literature #Today

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Stupid #Criticism #Taste

Success causes us to be more praised than known.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Success #Achievement #Causes

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Happiness #Doubt #Unhappy

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Deception #Doe #Deceiving

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

#Men #Hands #Fool

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Love #Dream #Two

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Passion #Men #Feelings

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Taken

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Happiness #Thinking #Joy

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Inspirational #Hope #Perseverance

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Patience #Affair

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Sunday #Clothes #Poetry

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Science #Poetry

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Sadness #Order #Interesting

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.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Real #Father #Men

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Emotional #Emotion

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Educational #Teach #Understood

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Heart #Laughing #People

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#God #Philosopher #Great Unknown

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Experience #Illusion #Lost

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Running #Risk #Auditors

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Morning #Flower #Tears

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Conscious #Concern #Persons

A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Powerful #Heart #Faces

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Experience #Gold #Littles

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Men #Duty

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Hate #Good Love #Evil

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#God #Home

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Men #Historical #Age

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Grief #Age #Tears

To love is to choose.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Love #Love Is

Great souls are harmonious.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Life #Soul

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friendship #Sex #Character

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Men #Imagination #Littles

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Passion #Violence #Causes

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Spring #Heart #Tears

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Men #Succeed #Talent

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Doors #Judging #Guilty

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Heart #Too Much #Reason

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Men #Ambitious #Becoming

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Expression #Poetry #Impression

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Desire #Pleasure #Torment

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Solitude #Isolation