Philibert Joseph Roux
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.Collection: Happiness
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.Collection: God
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.Collection: Evil
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tearsCollection: Grief
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.Collection: Emotional
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.Collection: Expression
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.Collection: Inspirational
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.Collection: Friends
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.Collection: Heart
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.Collection: Taken
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.Collection: Men
Everything that is exquisite hides itself.Collection: Modesty
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.Collection: Spring
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.Collection: Doors
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.Collection: Heart
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.Collection: Forgiveness
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.Collection: Art
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.Collection: Enthusiasm
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.Collection: Educational
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.Collection: Stupid
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.Collection: Conscious
Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.Collection: Hate
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.Collection: Patience
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.Collection: Friendship
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.Collection: Deception
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.Collection: Desire
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.Collection: Love
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.Collection: Talking
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.Collection: Friends
To love is to choose.Collection: Love
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.Collection: Justice
No labor is hopeless.Collection: Hopeless
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.Collection: Passion
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.Collection: Distance
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.Collection: Experience
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.Collection: Friendship
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.Collection: Knowledge
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.Collection: Country
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.Collection: Lost Friendship
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.Collection: Names
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.Collection: Friends
Success causes us to be more praised than known.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Prayer
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!Collection: Prayer
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.Collection: Friends
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.Collection: Men
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!Collection: God
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.Collection: Men
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.Collection: Friends
The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!Collection: Morning