Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. — 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
