Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
Philibert Joseph RouxThe 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 RouxThe 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 RouxThe philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
Philibert Joseph Roux