Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me. — 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
