Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Giving
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Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.
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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
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Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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