Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

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• Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

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  Class, Two, Society

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

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  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

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  Happiness, Illusion, Pleasure

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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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  Love, Life, Friendship

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• Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

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  Mistake, Believe, Intelligent

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• Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

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  Men, Add, Lists

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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

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  Inspiring, Travel, Thinking

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• Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

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  Life, Men, Novices

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

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• Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

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  Opportunity, Doors, Life Opportunity

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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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  Nature, Humor, Independent

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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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  Adversity, Men, Two

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• It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

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  Children, Memories, Past

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• Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

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  Character, Mean, Men

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• If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

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  Laughter, Healthy, Trying

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• Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

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  Passion, Men, Reason

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• Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

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  Misanthrope, Mankind, Forty

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• Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

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  Reign, Violence, Reason

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• False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

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  Lying, Hypocrisy, Modesty

  "Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc".

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• There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Maxims and Considerations". Book by E. P. Mathers, 1926.

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• If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

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  Ifs

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• Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

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  Dog, Doe, Passing

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• It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

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  Passion, Past, Men

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

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• We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

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  Fire, Justice, House

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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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  Love Is, Reason, Amusing

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1973). “Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc”

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• Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

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  Writing, Expression, Obscure

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