Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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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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It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
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Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
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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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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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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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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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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
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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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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.
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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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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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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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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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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.