Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorPassions make a man live, wisdom only makes him last.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorThe woman is like a shadow: if you flee, she follows; if you follow, she flees.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorThe richest of all men is the thrifty; the poorest, the miser.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorThe only thing that prevents God from sending a second flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorHe who has no character is not a man: he is a thing.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorThere are also elegant nonsense just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorSociety is divided into two great classes: those who have more food than appetite and those who have more appetite than food.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorModesty is the most innocent of lies.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorThe change of fashion is the tax that the industry of the poor imposes on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorPublic opinion has been the worst of opinions for centuries.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorIn big things, men show themselves as they want to be seen. In small things, as they are.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorOften love, stormy commerce, ends in bankruptcy.