Author: Nicolas Chamfort

Quotes

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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