Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!
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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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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.
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Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
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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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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
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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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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.