Philibert Joseph Roux Quotes
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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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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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Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
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When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
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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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Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
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Success causes us to be more praised than known.
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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.
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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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We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
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The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
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Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
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To love is to choose.
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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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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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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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Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
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We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
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Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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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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No labor is hopeless.
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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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The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
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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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Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
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