Famous quotes containing the word chamfort:
“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (17411794)
“A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (17411794)
“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (17411794)