Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible. Nicolas Chamfort More Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort More Quotes From Nicolas Chamfort Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change. Nicolas Chamfort small-changessocietymen Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. Nicolas Chamfort sixteensleeplife She commands who is blest with indifference. Nicolas Chamfort commandindifference Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous. Nicolas Chamfort wrinklesmadetogether Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. Nicolas Chamfort life-opportunityopportunitydoors Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. Nicolas Chamfort everydayrealliterature 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 passionhusbandlove Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. Nicolas Chamfort reliefsleepdeath Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. Nicolas Chamfort independenthumornature It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile. Nicolas Chamfort passionmenpast A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. Nicolas Chamfort naturekindnessmen An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. Nicolas Chamfort economicssarcasmsarcastic If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly. Nicolas Chamfort ifs All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. Nicolas Chamfort exaggeratedpassion 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 airnamesfriendship The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Nicolas Chamfort hilariouslaughterfunny Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity. Nicolas Chamfort stupidityseriousambition 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 obscureexpressionwriting Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins. Nicolas Chamfort love-youlove-istwo Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. Nicolas Chamfort breakheartworld
