Philibert Joseph Roux quotes
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“The egoist does not tolerate egoism.”
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“Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.”
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“Certain names always awake certain prejudices.”
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“Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.”
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“Everything that is exquisite hides itself.”
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“The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.”
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“Generosity is more charitable than wealth.”
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“Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.”
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“Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.”
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“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 form a just idea of them.”
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“God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.”
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“Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.”
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“The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.”
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“Length of saying makes languor of hearing.”
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“Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.”
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“The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.”
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“The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.”
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“Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!”
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“The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.”
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“The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.”
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“Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.”
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“We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.”
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“It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.”
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“We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.”
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“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”
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“Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.”
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“The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.”
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“I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.”
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“We love justice greatly, and just men but little.”
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“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.”
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“Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.”
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“Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.”
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“Success causes us to be more praised than known.”
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“When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.”
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“That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.”
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“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
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“What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.”
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“Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.”
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“Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.”
-- Philibert Joseph RouxSource : "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., (Part 5, XXII), 1886.
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“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
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“At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.”
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“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.”
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“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”
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“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”
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“Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.”
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“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 RouxSource : "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.
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“Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.”
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“Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.”
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“There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.”
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“Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!”
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“Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.”
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“When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.”
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“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!”
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“We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.”
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“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.”
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“What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.”
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“Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.”
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“Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.”
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“God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.”
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“History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.”
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“In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears”
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“Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.”
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“That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.”
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“The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.”
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“Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.”
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“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”
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“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.”
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“We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.”
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“The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.”
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“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.”
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“Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.”
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“Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.”
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