Author: Nicolas Chamfort

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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