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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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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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Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
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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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No labor is hopeless.
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We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
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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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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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Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
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The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
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Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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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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