Quote

She commands who is blest with indifference.

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
Blest
Commands
Indifference
Command

More quotes by 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
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
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
Image
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
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
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
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
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The contact of two epidermises.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Remorse turns us against ourselves.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Nicolas Chamfort