Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
Nicolas ChamfortThought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.
Nicolas ChamfortMen's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
Nicolas Chamfort