Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — 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
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well? — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality. — 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
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far… — 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
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — 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 of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
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 Image
