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
What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.” — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that… — 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
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books… — 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
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
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
