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Famous Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
“Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.”
“To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.”
“We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?”
“Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.”
“Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.”
“There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.”
“His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.”
“We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.”
“A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.”
“Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.”
“It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.”
“Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.”
“Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.”
“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.”
“Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
“There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.”
“Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.”
“The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.”
“The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.”