Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

French - Writer | April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

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.

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

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

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

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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

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

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

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

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

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

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

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

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