Nicolas Chamfort

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Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:

French writer.
Born: 1740 - Died: 1794
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

France

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

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Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée, il est très difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

Das Glück ist keine leichte Sache: es ist sehr schwer, Es in uns selbst, und unmöglich, es anderswo zu finden.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

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The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has 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.

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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.

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