Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Nicolas Chamfort
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Men
Reasonably
Aspire
Virtue
Literature
Cannot
Truth
May
More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
Nicolas Chamfort
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas Chamfort
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Nicolas Chamfort
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
Nicolas Chamfort
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
Nicolas Chamfort
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
Nicolas Chamfort
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
Nicolas Chamfort
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
Nicolas Chamfort
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
Nicolas Chamfort
He who leaves the game wins it.
Nicolas Chamfort
