Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
A French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms.
(1741 - 1794)
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All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.
[Enthusiasm]
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
[Attention]
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
[Self Acceptance]
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
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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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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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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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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
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