The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
Philibert Joseph RouxWhat is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
Philibert Joseph RouxLike 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