Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

French writer, journalist and playwright

Alive from: 1741-1794

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary)

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  A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

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  A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

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  All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

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  An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

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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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  Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

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  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.

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  Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

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  How many fools does it take to make up a public?

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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.

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  If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

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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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  Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

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  Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.