Quote: Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: 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. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: How many fools does it take to make up a public? [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: 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. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Quote: Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]