Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

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

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. Nicolas Chamfort

Greatness, Melancholy, Stems

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

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

Love, Loved, People, Wish, More, To Love

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, End, Eating, Choose, First

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

Art, Society, Secrets, Greatest

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

Opinion, Opinions, Worst, Public Opinion

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, Passion, Man, Woman, Parents, Me

Conviction is the conscience of the mind. Nicolas Chamfort

Mind, Conscience, Conviction

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

Life, Live, Think, Miserable, Watching

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

Life, Age, Man, His, Each, Novice

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, Hours

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

Ideas, Fools, Foolish, Just

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

Life, Live, Think, Watch, Miserable, Act

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

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

Day, Most, Wasted, Which, Laughed

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

God, First, Useless, Only, Flood, Thing

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

Only, Because, Passions, Exaggerate

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, Time, Men, Find, Will, Two

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

Morning, Day, Rest, You, Nothing, Will

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

Kindness, Heart, People, Chess, Head

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

Hope, More, Than, Must

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

People, Famous, Know, Celebrity, Us, Who

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

Today, Day, Books, Most, Been, Before

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

Worth, Real, Everyday, Deeds, Form

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

Change, Rich, Fashion, Vanity, Tax, Poor

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. Nicolas Chamfort

Things, Easier, Some, Than, Some Things

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more. Nicolas Chamfort

Women, Man, Woman, Evil, Think, More

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. Nicolas Chamfort

Great, Money, Small, Test, Only, Natures

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