Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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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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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
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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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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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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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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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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
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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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
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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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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally
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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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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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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Success makes success, like money makes money.
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.