Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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The sunset glow of self-possession.
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He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
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Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
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Prudence replaces strength by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.