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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
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
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
— 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
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
— 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
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
— Joseph Roux
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
— Joseph Roux
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
— 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
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
No labor is hopeless.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
— 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 orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Great souls are harmonious.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
— 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
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
— 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
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
— 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
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
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
— Joseph Roux
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
— Joseph Roux
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
— Philibert 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
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
— Joseph Roux
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
