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The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
Philibert Joseph Roux
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Philibert Joseph Roux
Age: 73 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 26
Died: 1854
Died: March 23
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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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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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God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
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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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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
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To love is to choose.
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Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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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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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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The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
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No labor is hopeless.
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Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
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There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
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Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
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Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
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Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
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We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
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