Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
