Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
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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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Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
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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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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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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.
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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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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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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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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The contact of two epidermises.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.