Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 April 1741
CountryFrance
death sleep literature
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
love husband passion
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.
marriage son men
Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
love two contact
The contact of two epidermises.
failure intelligent energy
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
brother my-brother
Be my brother or I will kill you.
humor independent cry
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
names doubt chance
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
nicknames chance providence
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
reign violence reason
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
belief conviction intellect
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
cities benefactors citadels
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
attitude philosophical sarcasm
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
doctors gold cold
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.