Chamfort
Chamfort
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, also known as Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister, and of the Jacobin club...
knowledge capacity humans
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
love-is epidemics disease
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
self imperfection deny
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
women way lovers
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
slander
Slander is the balm of malignity.
flames smoke
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
friends real eye
The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
funny morning time
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
fire justice house
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
suicide heart suicidal
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
funny class two
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
money tests preoccupation
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
love-you love-is two
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins....
wise wisdom men
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.