Nicolas Chamfort
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1741 – 1794
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Who was 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.
Famous Quotes:
- A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
- 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.
- If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
- Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. -- About Paris
- Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
- There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
- 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.
- Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
- Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
- People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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- Born
- Apr 6, 1741
Clermont-Ferrand - Also known as
- Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 13, 1794
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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