“Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.” Quote by 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.” MenQualitySocietySilverSmall Changes Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.” WellsFoolTrifles Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.” MadeTogetherIllUglinessWrinklesHideous Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.” MenHeartFacesWomenReflectionConnectionsMirrorsWideInstant Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.” MenLastsPassionMankind Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.” NeedsGenerosityGenerousShirtsRuffles Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.” MenNatureKindnessNobilityGood NatureKindliness Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.” ThinkingWorldMovingObjectsUniversalAimAppearanceThoughtfulSensibleTimeless Author:Robin G. Collingwood