49 Quotations by Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
- 21. Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
- 22. No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
- 23. One must not hope to be more than one can be.
- 24. Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.
- 25. People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
- 26. People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
- 27. Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
- 28. Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
- 29. Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
- 30. Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
- 31. Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
- 32. Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that ...
- 33. Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
- 34. Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
- 35. Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who ...
- 36. Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
- 37. Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
- 38. Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite ...
- 39. Success makes success, like money makes money.
- 40. Success produces success, just as money produces money.
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