Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
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