1.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
Philibert Joseph Roux
2.
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
3.
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
4.
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
Philibert Joseph Roux
5.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Philibert Joseph Roux
6.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
Philibert Joseph Roux
7.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Philibert Joseph Roux
8.
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
9.
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Philibert Joseph Roux
10.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
Philibert Joseph Roux
11.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
Philibert Joseph Roux
12.
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Philibert Joseph Roux
13.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
Philibert Joseph Roux
14.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Philibert Joseph Roux
15.
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
Philibert Joseph Roux
16.
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
Philibert Joseph Roux
17.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Philibert Joseph Roux
18.
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
19.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
Philibert Joseph Roux
20.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
Philibert Joseph Roux
21.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Philibert Joseph Roux
22.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Philibert Joseph Roux
23.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Philibert Joseph Roux
24.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Philibert Joseph Roux
25.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Philibert Joseph Roux
26.
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
Philibert Joseph Roux
27.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
Philibert Joseph Roux
28.
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Philibert Joseph Roux
29.
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.
Philibert Joseph Roux
30.
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
Philibert Joseph Roux
31.
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Philibert Joseph Roux
32.
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
Philibert Joseph Roux
33.
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
Philibert Joseph Roux
34.
Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
Philibert Joseph Roux
35.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
Philibert Joseph Roux
36.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
Philibert Joseph Roux
37.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Philibert Joseph Roux
38.
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
Philibert Joseph Roux
39.
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
40.
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
41.
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
42.
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
Philibert Joseph Roux
43.
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
Philibert Joseph Roux
44.
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
Philibert Joseph Roux
45.
To love is to choose.
Philibert Joseph Roux
46.
Great souls are harmonious.
Philibert Joseph Roux
47.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Philibert Joseph Roux
48.
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
Philibert Joseph Roux
49.
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
Philibert Joseph Roux
50.
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
