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Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:

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

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées


Note 

Note



Other version: "Man arrives a novice at every age of life."


Quote source: Maximes et pensées

Wikisource - Chamfort - Caractères et Anecdotes (fr) 



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


Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'homme arrive novice à chaque âge de la vie.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

German
Es tritt der Mensch in jedes Alter als Novize ein.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées



See also 

See also...



Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
André Gide

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America



Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau / 





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
Leo Tolstoy / 






All about life...




Quotes for: Man


Quotes

Quotes about man, all human beings:


Man is the future of man.
Francis Ponge / 





No man is weak by choice.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
Albert Camus - Chroniques / 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 





Any man can make mistakes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Philippicae / 






All about man, all human beings...




Quotes

Quotes for: Age


Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus / 





Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso / 





I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Reason, not age, finds wisdom.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 





Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 






Quotes

Nicolas Chamfort also said...


Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a single prejudice, is a benefactor of mankind.
Nicolas Chamfort - Discours sur l'influence des grands écrivains / 





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





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 Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 







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