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Nicolas Chamfort

Quote of Nicolas Chamfort - A man of wit is lost...


Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:

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

A man of wit is lost, if to his wit he does not join energy of character. If you have the lantern of Diogenes, you must also have his cudgel.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Un homme d'esprit est perdu s'il ne joint pas à l'esprit l'énergie de caractère. Quand on a la lanterne de Diogène, il faut avoir son bâton.

German
Ein geistreicher Mann ist verloren, wenn er nicht auch ein Mann von energischem Charakter ist. Hat man die Laterne des Diogenes, so muss man auch des Diogenes Stock haben.




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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.





Character is the virtue of hard times.





Action is character.











Quotes

Nicolas Chamfort also said...


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





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.












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