Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
