Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — 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
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as… — 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… — 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
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
