Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

Nicolas Chamfort (French - Writer)

 

April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

 

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

 

 

 

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.