Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy. — 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
