Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – Nicolas Chamfort
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – Nicolas Chamfort
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas 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