Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Nicolas ChamfortThe person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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 Chamfort