Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
Nicolas ChamfortVain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
Nicolas ChamfortTo enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Nicolas ChamfortMany men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Nicolas Chamfort