Famous quotes containing the words nicolas and/or philosophy:
“I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)