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.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorLove is more pleasing than marriage, because novels are more pleasing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorWomen give to friendship only what they cut from love.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorLove is like contagious diseases, the more they are feared, the more easily they are acquired.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorIn the world, there are three kinds of friends: those who love you, those who take care of you, and those who hate you.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorPhysical scourges and the calamities of human nature made society necessary. Society was added to the disasters of nature. The inconveniences of society made Government necessary, and Government was added to the disasters of society. This is the history of human nature.