Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.


The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (ed. 1902)


Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.