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

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

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