Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort, (1741-1794), French Writer, Journalist, Playwright Quotes
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Most people who put together verses or quotes are like people who eat cherries and oysters: they start with the best, and end up eating everything.
All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person has advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Education must have two foundations -- morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.
The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must also have his staff.
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.