Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Women, Thinking, Evil

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

• There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Evil, Giving, Down And

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

• 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 Chamfort

  Passion, Loss, Men

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

• In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Order, Evil

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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