Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression

— Nicolas Chamfort

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours.

— Nicolas Chamfort

How many fools does it take to make up a public? Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

— Nicolas Chamfort

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t

— Nicolas Chamfort

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave

— Nicolas Chamfort

I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only

— Nicolas Chamfort

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

— Nicolas Chamfort

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would

— Nicolas Chamfort

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Satire is the disease of art. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Satire is the disease of art.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but

— Nicolas Chamfort

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Bachelors’ wives and old maids’ children are always perfect. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Bachelors’ wives and old maids’ children are always perfect.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful

— Nicolas Chamfort

Running a house should be left to innkeepers. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The sunset glow of self-possession. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

The sunset glow of self-possession.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours;

— Nicolas Chamfort

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Education must have two foundations –morality as a support for virtue, prudence Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Education must have two foundations –morality as a support for virtue, prudence

— Nicolas Chamfort

Men whose only concern is other people’s opinion of them are like Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Men whose only concern is other people’s opinion of them are like

— Nicolas Chamfort

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live

— Nicolas Chamfort

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat

— Nicolas Chamfort

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The contact of two epidermises. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

The contact of two epidermises.

— Nicolas Chamfort

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of

— Nicolas Chamfort

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is

— Nicolas Chamfort

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate. Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Men’s hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women’s are not only Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Men’s hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women’s are not only

— Nicolas Chamfort

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For

— Nicolas Chamfort

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and Nicolas Chamfort Picture Quote

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and

— Nicolas Chamfort

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