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1. "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." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
2. "A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
3. "If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
4. "In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
5. "Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
6. "Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
7. "If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
8. "And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. [last words]" ~ Nicolas Chamfort
9. "Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
10. "It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
11. "All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
12. "Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
13. "We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
14. "One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
15. "La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l'on n'a pas ri." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
16. "On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
17. "He who leaves the game wins it." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
18. "El día peor empleado es aquél en que no se ha reído" ~ Nicolas Chamfort
19. "Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
20. "The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
21. "I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
22. "Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
23. "Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
24. "It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
25. "The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
26. "Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
27. "Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
28. "L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la société, n'est que l'échange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux épidermes." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
29. "Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
30. "The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
31. "There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
32. "Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
33. "Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
34. "Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
35. "Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
36. "Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
37. "Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem." ~ Nicolas Chamfort
38. "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." ~ Nicolas Chamfort

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