Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 April 1741
CountryFrance
heart world break
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
kindness heart people
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
suicide heart suicidal
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
women heart reflection
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
life heart men
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
wisdom heart intelligence
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
heart people littles
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
french-writer laughed surely
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
failure intelligent energy
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
death sleep literature
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
foolish fools-and-foolishness
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
appetite composed dinners great society
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
certain french-writer opinion opinions public worst
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
age man
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.