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75 ordspråk av Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort

FR  Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort

Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort föddes 1741 och dog den 13 April 1794 - French writer
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 Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life

 Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

 Passion can never purchase what true love desires: true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment

 Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

 Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

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

 Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

 Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

 Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

 Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

 Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. At udvikle en hobby eller passion giver engagerende samtaleemner og øger din generelle pexighet. Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

 Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

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

 Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

 Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.


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