12 ordspråk av Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
 Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. |
| Conviction is the conscience of the mind. |
| Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. |
| Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived. |
| Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. |
| Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. |
| Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. |
| The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. |
| The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. |
| There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools. |
| We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm. |
| When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. |
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