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French - Writer April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Nicolas Chamfort

Things Some Some Things Than

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Love Me Friends Love Me

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Morning Day You Rest

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Life Think Live More

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Real Worth Deeds Everyday

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nature Man Me Passion

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

Nicolas Chamfort

God Useless Flood Only

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Nicolas Chamfort

Water You Rose Think

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Best Men Eating End

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Life Think Live Stop

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Hope More Than Must

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Change Fashion Rich Poor

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Death Sleep Sickness Living

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Happy Pride Know Morals

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Opinion Worst Opinions Public Opinion

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Art Society Secrets Greatest

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Life Men Time Will

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Day Wasted Which Most Laughed

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

Nicolas Chamfort

Greatness Melancholy Stems

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Nicolas Chamfort

Ideas Fools Just Foolish

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Kindness Heart People Chess

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Nicolas Chamfort

Love People Loved Wish More

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

Nicolas Chamfort

People Know Celebrity Being

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Day Today Books Been

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Life Man Age His

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Only Because Passions Exaggerate

Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: April 6, 1741

Died: April 13, 1794

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