40 ordspråk av Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort
Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort
Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort föddes
1741 och dog den 13 April
1794 - French writer
Mer info via Google eller Bing. A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with the snapshots of his kids.
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers
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A mother understands what a child does not say.
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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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.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity
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It is easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can be happy in this world
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