Concern Quotes by Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux