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All Quotes by author - Nicolas Chamfort

" All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. "

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

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

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

" Conviction is the conscience of the mind. "

" Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. "

" 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. "

" Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. "

" One must not hope to be more than one can be. "

" People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. "

" Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. "

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

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

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

" The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. "

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

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