Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

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

Love, Wish, Loved

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

Life, Live, Often

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas Chamfort

Love, Friends, Attention

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

Life, Age, Novice

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

Morning, Nothing, Rest

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, Husband, Parents

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

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

Money, Great, Small

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

Life, Live, Often

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

God, Another, Useless

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

Change, Fashion, Rich

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 infinitely more successful.
Nicolas Chamfort

Art, Successful, Bored

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.
Nicolas Chamfort

Live, Before, Soul

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort

Love, Marriage, History

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

Real, Worth, Everyday

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Nicolas Chamfort

Great, Society, Two

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

Art, Society, Greatest

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

Ideas, Foolish, Fools

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

Passions, Exaggerate

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

Known, Advantage, Celebrity

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
Nicolas Chamfort

Mind, Conscience, Conviction

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
Nicolas Chamfort

Made, Water, Rose

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Nicolas Chamfort

Government, Nothing, Laugh

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas Chamfort

Death, Sleep, Living

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Nicolas Chamfort

Truth, May, Cannot

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: April 6, 1741

Died: April 13, 1794

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