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
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
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. — 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
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note) — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner. — 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
