Nicolas Chamfort Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.”
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“The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.”
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“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
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“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”
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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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“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.”
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“A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.”
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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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“I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.”
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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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“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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“Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?”
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“Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.”
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“Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.”
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“When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.”
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“Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.”
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“The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.”
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“It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.”
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“Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.”
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“Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.”
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“Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.”
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“Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.”
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“Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.”
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“Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.”
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“Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.”
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“Conviction is the conscience of intellect.”
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“Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.”
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“All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.”
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“He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.”
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