Top 57 Philibert Joseph Roux Quotes
#1. 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.
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#8. Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
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#9. The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
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#13. The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
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#15. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#20. We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
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#21. Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
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#22. Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.
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#23. 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!
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#24. 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.
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#26. God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
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#28. Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
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#29. Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
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#31. 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.
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#33. The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
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#34. Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
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#36. The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
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#38. When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
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#39. We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
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#42. 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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#48. We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
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#49. The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
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#54. 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.
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#56. What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
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#57. I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
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