Quote

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

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
Philosopher
Passion
Fain
Would
Extinguish
Like
Furnace
Furnaces
Chemist
Resembles
Passions

More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Image
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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
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
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
She commands who is blest with indifference.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
Nicolas Chamfort