Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
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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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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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Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
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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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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
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Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
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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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He who leaves the game wins it.
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The poor are the blacks of Europe.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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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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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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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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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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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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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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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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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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Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.