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Philibert Joseph Roux
Age: 73 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 26
Died: 1854
Died: March 23
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The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
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
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
Philibert Joseph Roux
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
Philibert Joseph Roux
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
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
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
Philibert Joseph Roux
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
Philibert Joseph Roux
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
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
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
Philibert Joseph Roux
