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...
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.
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.
art expression obscure
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.
nicknames chance providence
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
education self two
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
feet expression hands
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
men matter littles
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally