Quote

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

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
Life
Possess
Road
Names
Success
Long
Way
Good

More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Image
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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
It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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
All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The contact of two epidermises.
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
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Nicolas Chamfort