At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
Nicolas ChamfortSpero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
Nicolas ChamfortWomen see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
Nicolas Chamfort