Philibert Joseph Roux Quotes

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

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

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

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

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.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

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

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.

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.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.