Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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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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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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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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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
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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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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
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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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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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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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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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Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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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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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
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Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?