Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
Philibert Joseph RouxSince unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
Philibert Joseph RouxThe 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.
Philibert Joseph Roux