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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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The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
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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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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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Let us pray! God is just, he tries us God is pitiful, he will comfort us let us pray!
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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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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God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
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Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
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Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
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Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
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Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
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