Authors:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Nicolas Chamfort's Profile

Brief about Nicolas Chamfort: By info that we know Nicolas Chamfort was born at 1970-01-01. And also Nicolas Chamfort is French Writer.

Some Nicolas Chamfort's quotes. Goto "Nicolas Chamfort's quotation" section for more.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Tags: Books, Read, Today

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Tags: Nature, Rich, Said

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Tags: Hope

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Tags: Head, Heart, Kindness

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Tags: Few, Good, Philosophy

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Tags: Easier, Legalize, Legitimate

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Tags: Life, Men, Time

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

Tags: Greatness, Melancholy, Stems

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Tags: Evil, Woman, Women

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Tags: Best, End, Men

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Tags: Art, Bored, Successful

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Tags: Against, Quite, Sure

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 of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Tags: Cannot, Happy, Study

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Tags: Love, Loved, Wish

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Tags: Life, Makes, Often

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Tags: Attention, Friends, Love

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Tags: Disgusting, Morning, Rest

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Tags: Age, Life, Novice

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Tags: Death, Living, Sleep

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Tags: Another, God, Useless
Sualci Quotes friends