Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Feelings
Suppose
Sometimes
Claims
Giving
Actions
Great
Gives
Good
Feeling
Virtuous
People
Pleasure
Perform
Wish
Wicked
Action
Claim
More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Nicolas Chamfort
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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
In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
Nicolas Chamfort
Change, change,--we all covet change.
Nicolas Chamfort
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Nicolas Chamfort
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
Nicolas Chamfort
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Nicolas Chamfort
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
Nicolas Chamfort
Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
Nicolas Chamfort
Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
Nicolas Chamfort
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
Nicolas Chamfort
We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Nicolas Chamfort
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
Nicolas Chamfort
Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
Nicolas Chamfort
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort
