There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Patience
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Conflict
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Isolation, Solitude, One liners
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Forgiveness
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Reality, Comparisons, Opportunities, Happiness, Unhappiness
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Experience, Illusion
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Doubt, Happiness, Unhappiness
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Experience
At first we hope too much; later on, not enough.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Perseverance, Aspirations, Hope
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Conversation
What is experience?. A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Experience
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Tears, Grief, Youth, Age, Crying
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Happiness, Blessings
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Emotions
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Science, Scientists
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Crying, Cries
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Poetry, Poets
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Ego
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 that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Friendship
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Literature
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Wit, Quotations, Fools, Humor
Philosophers call God “the great unknown.” “The great misknown” is more like it!
—Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Philosophy
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- Alexis Carrel American Surgeon
- Jack Penn South African Surgeon
- Jacques Cousteau French Underwater Explorer
- Arthur Rimbaud French Poet
- Pierre Corneille French Playwright
- Matthieu Ricard French Buddhist Monk
- Charles de Gaulle French General, Statesman
- Roland Barthes French Literary Theorist
- Gaston Bachelard French Philosopher
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