Famous Quotes / Nicolas de Chamfort
10 Quotations by Nicolas de Chamfort
- 1. Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for se ...
- 2. Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The reme ...
- 3. Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
- 4. Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.
- 5. Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
- 6. Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite ...
- 7. Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
- 8. The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as ...
- 9. Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
- 10. When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such ...