Nicolas Chamfort quotes

" The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. " # Laughter

" If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. " # Love

" I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. " # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power

" No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. " # Decency # Law and Lawyers # Mind

" Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. " # Deeds and Good Deeds # Action # Life and Living

" 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. " # Education # Prudence # Martyrdom

" Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. " # Experience # Age and Aging # Life and Living

" Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. " # Fame

" Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. " # Fashion # Taxes and Taxation # Change

" How many fools does it take to make up a public? " # Fools and Foolishness