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French
-
Writer
April 6
, 1741 -
April 13
, 1794
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
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas Chamfort
Ideas
,
Fools
,
Foolish
,
Just
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
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
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
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Nicolas Chamfort
Greatness
,
Melancholy
,
Stems
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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