Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Success makes success, like money makes money.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.