We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves. Philibert Joseph Roux More Quotes by Philibert Joseph Roux More Quotes From Philibert Joseph Roux Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. Philibert Joseph Roux lost-friendship illusion experience We love justice greatly, and just men but little. Philibert Joseph Roux justice littles men The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. Philibert Joseph Roux happy happiness thinking When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing. Philibert Joseph Roux unhappy doubt happiness Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. Philibert Joseph Roux passion feelings men To love is to choose. Philibert Joseph Roux love-is love At first we hope too much and later on, not enough. Philibert Joseph Roux perseverance hope inspirational In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears Philibert Joseph Roux tears grief age 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. Philibert Joseph Roux historical age men 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! Philibert Joseph Roux tears flower morning What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul. Philibert Joseph Roux dream love two 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. Philibert Joseph Roux mind heart long The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. Philibert Joseph Roux ungrateful friends men The egoist does not tolerate egoism. Philibert Joseph Roux tolerate ego doe Generosity is more charitable than wealth. Philibert Joseph Roux charitable generosity wealth The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. Philibert Joseph Roux proportion air friendship The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation. Philibert Joseph Roux orators oratory mouths Length of saying makes languor of hearing. Philibert Joseph Roux length hearing talking Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree. Philibert Joseph Roux orange-trees fruit desire 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. Philibert Joseph Roux distance order ideas