Nicolas Chamfort Quotes about Passion

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Passion, Men, Reason

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Nicolas Chamfort

Passion, Past, Men

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

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Love, Husband, Passion

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

Nicolas Chamfort

Passion, Men, Lasts

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

Nicolas Chamfort

Passion, Exaggerated

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

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

Nicolas Chamfort

Passion, Men, Lasts

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Nicolas Chamfort

Passion, Exaggeration Is, Exaggeration

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Nicolas Chamfort

Passion, Loss, Men

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