All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Nicolas Chamfort
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas Chamfort
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Nicolas Chamfort
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
Nicolas Chamfort
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
Nicolas Chamfort
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas Chamfort
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Nicolas Chamfort
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
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
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas Chamfort
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Nicolas Chamfort
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Nicolas Chamfort
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