Lasts Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lasts Mankind Men Passion Wisdom
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for… — Plato 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
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. — Buck Martinez Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a… — Edith Head Copy Share Image
We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
