Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

'Tis folly to be wise.

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.