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Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

French writer, journalist and playwright

Lived from: 1741 - 1794

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 6 april 1741 Died: 13 april 1794

  • 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 return to the attack more furious than ever.

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  • A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
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  • A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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  • All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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  • An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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  • Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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  • Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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  • Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
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  • Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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  • Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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  • How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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  • I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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  • If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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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 infinitely more successful.
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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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  • Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
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  • Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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  • Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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  • No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
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  • Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]
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  • People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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What are the most famous quotes from Nicolas Chamfort?

The two most famous quotes from Nicolas Chamfort are:

  • "A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers."
  • "A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure."

When did Nicolas Chamfort live?

Nicolas Chamfort was born in 1741 and died in the year 1794.