Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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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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I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.
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Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
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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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Women of the world crave excitement.
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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 poor are the blacks of Europe.
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Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
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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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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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He who leaves the game wins it.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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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 can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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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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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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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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Satire is the disease of art.
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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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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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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.