Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Book, Ideas, History

• Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  History, Horror, Whole

• Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Freedom, Knowledge, Men

• There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  History, Anecdotes, Attention

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

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