missing is the laziness of an evil and the silence of a fool.
Better to be less and be what it is, unquestionably.
The ambition has gripped the small souls more easily than in large as well as the fire burns the straw huts faster than in the palaces.
The vulgar at all believe in the purity of certain virtues and certain feelings, in general, the common people can not achieve more than the basic ideas.
There are few flaws that prevent a man to have a lot of friends, which may happen to have great qualities.
poultry Friendship, faith society foxes and wolves.
crazier than are counted in the same wise and sage wisdom folly.
We like running into someone else happy with ourselves.
society, academia, the halls, which is called the world, is a miserable piece, an opera bad and uninteresting, barely sustained by machines and decorations.
When the world wants to please, let there be resigned to teach many things, which are known by people who ignore them.
No one has so many enemies in the world as a righteous man, proud and willing to give sensitive people and things for what they are, rather than accept what they look like.
The first reason for sadness I have served as armor against the following.
What success involves good amount of work is the relationship established between the mediocrity of the ideas of the author and the mediocrity of the ideas from the public.
Miserables human institutions, born only to inspire contempt and horror, require that the respect and reverence!
Paris, city of entertainment, pleasure, etc.., Where four fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.
Paris, an amazing country, where they are needed for thirty sous dinner, four francs to take the air a hundred louis to the superfluous within four louis necessary and for no more than necessary on the superfluous.
How is it possible that, under the despotism more embarrassing, think we reproduce?
Definition of a despotic government: an order of things where the upper and the lower is vile is vile.
" I have not seen in the world," said M. ..- , than undigested food, dinners without pleasure, conversations without trust, friendship and relationships without lying without love. "
Before being immortal, I know if I will live.
During a siege, a water carrier through the city screaming: "Six salaries as water!" a bomb fell and took one of his tanks. "Twelve salaries!, cried the water carrier undeterred.
A Frenchman was allowed to visit the office of the King of Spain. Once he reached his chair and his desk, he exclaimed:" Then this is where this great monarch works! ". " How it works! Have you been here insulting to His Majesty? ". And there was a complaint where the French took a long effort to understand the English that he had not intended to offend the Majesty of his master.
M. of Lessay, very gentle man, but with great knowledge of society, said he had to swallow a toad every morning to find nothing objectionable in the day.
a retired philosopher of the world I wrote a letter full of virtue and reason, which ended with these words: " Goodbye, my friend if you can hold to the interests that bind you to society, but cultivate the feelings I separated from her. "
MN .. I asked why not alternated in society. He replied:" Because I do not love the women and men know. "
M. de Choiseul-Gouffier, looking at its own expense, shingle their rural homes, exposed to fire, those thanked him for his kindness and asked him to leave their homes as they were, arguing that if their houses were covered with tiles instead of thatch, the subdelegates increase their contributions.
D. .., friendly misanthrope, he told me about the evil of men: " only the futility of the first flood God keeps sending a second."
I know that we live with money, but I also know that we must live for money.
M. .. is criticized, his taste for solitude, to which he replied: " is because I am more used to my defects to another."
Fortune, to reach me, will go through my mind the conditions imposed.
Hope is just a charlatan which constantly misleads us and for me, happiness does not start when I lost.
Nicola Chamfort (1741-1794) Maxims, thoughts, characters and anecdotes.
