Joseph Joubert Quotes

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

Friends are just enemies in reverse.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Enemies are just friends in reverse.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.