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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 folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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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 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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Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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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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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
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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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Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
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Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
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God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
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We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
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