All Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
- There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. Friendship
- Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. Act
- Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. Attitude
- The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. All
- Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. Death
- The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Another Flood
- 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… Belong
- 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. Admitted
- Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? Revolution
- Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. Amusing
- Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. Any
- If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. France
- Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. Aspire
- Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. Been
- People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. Chess
- Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. Easier
- 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… All
- 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… Aid
- 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… Attack
- We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm. Alarm
- And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note) Break
- A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. Added
- Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. Class
- Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Appetite
- Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. Great
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