Top 70 Philibert Joseph Roux Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The egoist does not tolerate egoism.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

2. “Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

3. “A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

4. “Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

5. “When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

6. “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.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

8. “The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

9. “Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

11. “Everything that is exquisite hides itself.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

12. “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.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

13. “Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

14. “God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

15. “Length of saying makes languor of hearing.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

16. “Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

17. “Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

18. “Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

20. “As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

21. “Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

22. “Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

23. “What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

24. “When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

25. “We love justice greatly, and just men but little.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

27. “Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

28. “Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

30. “It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

32. “To love is to choose.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

33. “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

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

35. “There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

36. “Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

37. “Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

38. “The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

40. “The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

41. “A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

42. “Certain names always awake certain prejudices.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

43. “Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

44. “Great souls are harmonious.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

45. “In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

46. “What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

48. “Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

49. “Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux

50. “Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.”

— Philibert Joseph Roux