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
certain french-writer opinion opinions public worst
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
public-opinion opinion worst
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
opinion dare prudence
It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
stupid reign public-opinion
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid.
failure intelligent energy
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
death sleep literature
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
age man
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
life oneself watch
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
appetite composed dinners great society
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
french-writer laughed surely
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
days wasted
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
wasted
The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.
foolish fools-and-foolishness
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
vanity littles sells
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.