All Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
- 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
- Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more. Evil
- The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. Affinity
- In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze. Break
- What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself. Assert
- It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market. Dare
- Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list. Add
- He who leaves the game wins it. Game
- Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. Best
- All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. All
- The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society Art