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...
Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
wisdom heart intelligence
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
fashion vanity taste
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
merit deference esteem
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
turns remorse
Remorse turns us against ourselves.
love men trying
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
friendship names air
He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
horse astonishment scandal
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
deceiving lost charlatans
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
mind together narrow-minds
Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
vanity tongue egotism
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
art disease satire
Satire is the disease of art.
temptation armor obscurity
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
europe poor
The poor are the blacks of Europe.