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Nicolas Chamfort

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort (French: [ʃɑ̃fɔʁ]; 6 April 1741 – 13 April 1794), was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister, and of the Jacobin club.

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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

Attention, Country, Everyone, Nothing, Strive

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

Friendship, Life, Love, Loved, People, Willing

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

Chemist, Fain, Like, Passion, Passions, Philosopher

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

History, Horror, Horrors, Sequence, Whole

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Acceptance, Confidence, Fair, Love, Love You, Neighbor

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

Contemplation, Inspiring, Stop, Thinking, Travel, Watching

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Revolutions, Rose, Think, Thinking, Water

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Believe, Foolish, Intelligent, Make, Mistake, Mistakes

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

Complicated, Deranged, Happiness, Watches

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Expression, Feet, Hands

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Governed, Justly, Weaker, Weakness, Women

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Funny, Reading, Book, Today, Written, Books

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Children, Future, Live, Memories, Past, Present

The sunset glow of self-possession.

Glow, Possession, Self, Sunset

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Moderns, Pirate, Play, Pockets, Said, Steal

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Governed, Head, Heart, Littles, People

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Add, Discuss, Lists, Man, Men, Refuse

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

Time, Mistake, Character, Repelled, Certain, Apparent

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

Lasts, Man, Men, Passion, Passions, Wisdom

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Kill, Movement, Quite, Return, Scandal

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