Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

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

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  • Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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  • Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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  • Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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  • Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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  • Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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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 return to the attack more furious than ever.
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  • Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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  • Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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  • Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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  • Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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  • Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
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  • Success makes success, like money makes money.
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  • The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
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  • The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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  • The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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  • The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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  • The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
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  • There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
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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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  • Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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