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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin [1755-1826] French
Rank: 104
Lawyer


Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay."

Food, Happiness



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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. Food
101
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
102
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. Happiness
103
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
104
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
105
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
106
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
107
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
108
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
109
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
110
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
111
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
112
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
113
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
114
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
115
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
116
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
117
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
118
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
119
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
120
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
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