Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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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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Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
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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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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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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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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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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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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
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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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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
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Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
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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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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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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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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.