Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
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Slander is the balm of malignity.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.