Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Philibert Joseph Roux (French Surgeon)

Philibert Joseph Roux (1780–1854) was a French surgeon born in Auxerre. Trained as a military surgeon, he later moved to Paris, where he was a student and friend of Marie François Xavier Bichat. In 1806 he became a surgeon at the Hôpital Beaujon, and in 1810 was assigned to the Hôpital de la Charité. In 1835 he succeeded Guillaume Dupuytren as chief surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Poets, Poetry

Philosophers call God “the great unknown.” “The great misknown” is more like it!
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Philosophy

At first we hope too much; later on, not enough.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Aspirations, Hope, Perseverance

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

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: Cries, Crying

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: One liners, Solitude, Isolation

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Happiness, Appreciation, Gratitude, Blessings

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

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Patience

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Grief, Crying, Tears, Youth, Age

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

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

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Literature

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

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Doubt, Unhappiness, Happiness

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: Unhappiness, Happiness, Reality, Comparisons, Opportunities

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Illusion, Experience

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Experience

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Topics: Ego

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

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

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