S�bastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
France
6 Apr 1741 // 13 Apr 1794
Writer
6 Apr 1741 // 13 Apr 1794
Writer
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones
One must not hope to be more than one can be
No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before
Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death
Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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