(26 quotes found)
“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
“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.”
“Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.”
“There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
“Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.”
“Success makes success, like money makes money.”
“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.”
