Words matter. These are the best Nicolas Chamfort Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t know, and who don’t know us.
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
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.
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.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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.
