"It must be admitted that there are some……" — Nicolas Chamfort
"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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107 Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort has 107 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate…
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if…
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear…
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After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other…
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