Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
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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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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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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…
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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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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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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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…
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is…
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will…
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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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