Nicolas Chamfort Two Quotations

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

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.

The contact of two epidermises.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins....