A philosopher who had retired from the world wrote me a letter full of good advice and common sense. It concluded with these words: “Farewell, my friend; maintain if you can the interests that bind you to society, but cultivate the feelings that cut you away from it.”
Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et Pensées
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Ab Jove principium Musis.
Nicolas Chamfort
The muses begin with Zeus.
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“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
― Nicolas Chamfort
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Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Nicolas Chamfort
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“I once read that there’s nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that’s lasted too long. I’ve also heard that God is eternal.”
-- Nicolas Chamfort
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İmkansızzz…
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"Love, in the form in which it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the superficial contact of two bodies."---Nicolas Chamfort, French epigramist, 1741-1794
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"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."
Nicolas Chamfort - (1741-1794) - French Writer
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Il pessimista si lamenta del vento.
L’ottimista aspetta che cambi.
Il realista aggiusta le vele.
Nicolas Chamfort
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“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
― Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort-fericirea
Fericirea nu e lucru ușor; este foarte greu de găsit în noi și imposibil în altă parte. 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 de Chamfort, writer (6th April 1741-1794)
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Nicolas de Chamfort: Be independent
“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 de Chamfort.
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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."---Nicolas Chamfort, French epigramist, 1741-1794
“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.”—Nicolas Chamfort, French epigramist, 1741-1794
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A day without laughter ~ @NicolasChamfort
A day without laughter
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