Facts about Nicolas Chamfort

Occup.	Writer
From	France
Born	April 6, 1741
Died	April 13, 1794
Aged	53 years

Summary

Nicolas Chamfort was a famous Writer from France, who lived between April 6, 1741 and April 13, 1794. He/she became 53 years old.

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He/she is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious. Our collection contains 34 quotes who is written / told by Nicolas.

34 Famous quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

"There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions"

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"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners"

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"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness"

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"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day"

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"People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess"

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"One must not hope to be more than one can be"

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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent"

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"Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all"

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"Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before"

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"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth"

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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life"

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"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history"

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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death"

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"It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world"

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"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful"

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"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France"

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"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me"

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"Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?"

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"Conviction is the conscience of the mind"

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"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live"

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"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich"

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"Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us"

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"All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate"

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"The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless"

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"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed"

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"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live"

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"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society"

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"Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate"

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"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men"

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"The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity"

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"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures"

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"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever"

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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem"

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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones"

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