Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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Satire is the disease of art.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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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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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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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
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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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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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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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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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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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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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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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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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The poor are the blacks of Europe.
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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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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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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.