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Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:

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

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


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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



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

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




See also 

See also...



They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.




Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.





Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.











Quotes for: difficulty


Quotes

Quotes for: difficulty


Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.





There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.





One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





To the stars through difficulty.
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Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times.











Quotes

Quotes for: impossible


We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.





So that the possible emerges, the impossible must be tried again and again.





Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.





They did not know it was impossible so they did it.





It always seems impossible until its done.





Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.











Quotes

Nicolas Chamfort also said...


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





Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a single prejudice, is a benefactor of mankind.





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.





Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.





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





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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