It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the… — 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
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed. — 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
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