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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
— Nicolas Chamfort
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
— Nicolas Chamfort
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
— Nicolas Chamfort
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
— Nicolas Chamfort
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
— Nicolas Chamfort
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Success makes success, like money makes money.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
— Nicolas Chamfort
How many fools does it take to make up a public?
— Nicolas Chamfort
Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
— Nicolas Chamfort
If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
— Nicolas Chamfort
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
— Nicolas Chamfort
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
— Nicolas Chamfort
In a country where everyone is trying to be noticed, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
— Nicolas Chamfort
A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
— Nicolas Chamfort
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
— Nicolas Chamfort
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.
— Nicolas Chamfort
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
— Nicolas Chamfort
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Be my brother or I will kill you.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Change, change,we all covet change. — Nicolas Chamfort
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
— Nicolas Chamfort
What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
— Nicolas Chamfort
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
— Nicolas Chamfort
He who leaves the game wins it.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
— Nicolas Chamfort
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
— Nicolas Chamfort
When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The contact of two epidermises.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins ...
— Nicolas Chamfort
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
— Nicolas Chamfort
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Knowledge is boundless,human capacity, limited. — Nicolas Chamfort
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
— Nicolas Chamfort
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
— Nicolas Chamfort
We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
— Nicolas Chamfort
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
— Nicolas Chamfort
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
— Nicolas Chamfort
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
— Nicolas Chamfort
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself - and impossible to find anywhere else.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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 thought.
— Nicolas Chamfort
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
— Nicolas Chamfort
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
— Nicolas Chamfort
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
— Nicolas Chamfort
