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Nicolas Chamfort [1741-1794] French

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Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, also known as Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister, and of the Jacobin club.

Nature, Age, Death, Famous, History, Independence, Love, Marriage, Morning

Quote	Tags	Rank
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.	Love	101
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.		102
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.		103
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.		104
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.	Death	105
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.	Nature	106
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?		107
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.	History, Marriage	108
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.	Independence, Nature	109
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.	Morning	110
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.		111
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.		112
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.		113
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.		114
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.		115
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.		116
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.		117
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.		118
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.	Famous	119
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.		120
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.	Age	121
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.		122
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.		123
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.		124
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.		125
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.		126
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.		201
One must not hope to be more than one can be.		202
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.		203
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.		204
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.		205
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.		206
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.		207
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.		208
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.		209
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.		210
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.		211
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.		212

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