Philibert Joseph Roux Quotes & Sayings

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

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

The egoist does not tolerate egoism. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

Great souls are harmonious. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Generosity is more charitable than wealth. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

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

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

No labor is hopeless. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything that is exquisite hides itself. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Certain names always awake certain prejudices. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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