Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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
Moral
Sweets
Truth
Medicines
Wells
Peasant
Well
Garments
Peasants
Morals
Medicine
Gild
Sweet
Clothe
More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
Nicolas Chamfort
It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Nicolas Chamfort
Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
He who leaves the game wins it.
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
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Nicolas Chamfort
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
Nicolas Chamfort
It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
Nicolas Chamfort
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
The contact of two epidermises.
Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
Nicolas Chamfort
