Quote

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Nicolas Chamfort

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Horrors
Sequence
Horror
Almost
History
Whole

More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Image
Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
He who leaves the game wins it.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Nicolas Chamfort