Nicolas Chamfort Quotes about Giving

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Giving, Morality, Injury

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Life And Death, Giving, Tragedy

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Evil, Giving, Down And

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Vanity, Names, Giving

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

People, Giving, Feelings

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Book, Giving, Majority

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Giving, Doe, Ill

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

Nicolas Chamfort Quotes about Giving

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