All Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
- There is a melancholy that stems from greatness From
- One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority Able
- Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. Best
- How many fools does it take to make up a public? Doe
- Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice. Each
- Be my brother or I will kill you. Brother
- Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. Break
- Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency. Arranged
- Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me. Consult
- The contact of two epidermises. Contact
- Chance is a nickname for Providence. Chance
- There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me. All
- The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. Cold
- In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing. Attention
- Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. Death
- Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is. Believe
- Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. Deeds
- An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. Beautifully
- Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. History
- Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived. Endured
- Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect. Always Perfect
- An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the… Art
- Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the… Balance
- In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally Behave
- What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they… Best