Philibert Joseph Roux Quotes

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

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.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.