Nicolas Chamfort Giving Quotations

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.