Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
More Quotes from Nicolas de Chamfort:
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.Nicolas de Chamfort
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Nicolas de Chamfort
The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.
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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 de Chamfort
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas de Chamfort
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