Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. – Nicolas Chamfort
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. – Nicolas Chamfort
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. – Nicolas Chamfort
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. – Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. – Nicolas Chamfort
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931