Chamfort
Chamfort
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, also known as Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister, and of the Jacobin club...
understanding scratches said
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
ideas numbers mediocrity
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.
success making-money
Success makes success, like money makes money.
lonely hate loneliness
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
world excitement crave
Women of the world crave excitement.
passion men reason
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
history horror sequence
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
economics excellent scalpels
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
pride differences vanity
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.
giving life-and-death tragedy
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
love two contact
The contact of two epidermises.
country attention strive
In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
doctors gold cold
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
marriage son men
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.