Quotes from Philibert Joseph Roux

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.