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