Nicolas Chamfort on Human Nature

This page displays 2 quotations attributed to Nicolas Chamfort and filed under "Human Nature" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.

Attributed to Nicolas Chamfort, entry #39798: "We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding."

Attributed to Nicolas Chamfort, entry #40613: "High society is a poor play, a bad, boring opera, made slightly better by its staging, costumes and scenery."