Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Happiness, Illusion, Pleasure

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

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  Misanthrope, Mankind, Forty

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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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• 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.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ifs

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• Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

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  Reign, Violence, Reason

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

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  Funny, Class, Two

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

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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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  Happiness, Opportunity, Mind

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

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• Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

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  Ambition, Stupidity, Serious

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society". Book by Nicolas Chamfort, 1795.

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• One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

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  Ideas, Majority, Able

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• Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

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  Happiness, Reality, May

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• To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

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  Giving, Morality, Injury

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