11 Quotes by Chamfort

Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't bring ingots with us to market; we take silver or small change.

In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Love is like an epidemic; the more one is afraid, the more vulnerable one is.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority.

El día peor empleado es aquél en que no se ha reído

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day

Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.