Famous Quotes / Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
49 Quotations by Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
- 1. A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good gene ...
- 2. A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
- 3. All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.
- 4. An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than li ...
- 5. Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
- 6. Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
- 7. Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
- 8. Education must have two foundations -- morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for s ...
- 9. Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
- 10. How many fools does it take to make up a public?
- 11. I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de ...
- 12. If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
- 13. If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many :pings we know already by peopl ...
- 14. If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor ...
- 15. It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but t ...
- 16. Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The reme ...
- 17. Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
- 18. Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
- 19. Most people who put together verses or quotes are like people who eat cherries and oysters: they sta ...
- 20. Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...