(74 quotes found)
“Love, in present-day society, is just the exchange of two imaginary pictures, and the contact of one epidermis with another.”
Chamfort
“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
“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.”
“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]”
“Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.”
“Success makes success, like money makes money.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
“If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.”
“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.”
“Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.”
