Nicolas Chamfort

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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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cannot #man #may #reasonably #truth

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

— 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

#cry #did #her #independent #less

One must not hope to be more than one can be. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cures #few #good #hardly #like

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

#loved #more #more people #people #than

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#classes #composed #dinners #great #more

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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