Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — 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
Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
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
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze. — 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
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which,… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the… — 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
