Nicolas Chamfort Quote

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are...

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are...

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are...

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are...