Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may… — 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
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
