Nicolas Chamfort
Quotations
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“Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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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.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“One must not hope to be more than one can be.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“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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“Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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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.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. – Nicolas Chamfort
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