All Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
- And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note) Break
- A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. Added
- Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. Class
- Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Appetite
- Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. Great
- Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.... Contact
- Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. From
- Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control. Always Ready
- Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid. Among
- There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. Folly
- Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner. Bears
- Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Change
- I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. Attention
- Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. Deference
- Remorse turns us against ourselves. Inspirational
- A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. Amiable
- The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study… Advanced
- A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of… Any
- Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. Happiness
- Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they… All