Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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Satire is the disease of art.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
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Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
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Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
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The poor are the blacks of Europe.
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Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.