Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, also known as Chamfort, 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 April 1741
CountryFrance
life oneself watch
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
life men novices
Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
life sleep sixteen
Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
life heart men
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
giving life-and-death tragedy
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
opportunity doors life-opportunity
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
life positive happiness
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
love life friendship
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
french-writer laughed surely
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
failure intelligent energy
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
death sleep literature
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
foolish fools-and-foolishness
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
appetite composed dinners great society
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
certain french-writer opinion opinions public worst
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.