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Nicolas Chamfort

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Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:

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

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


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French
Jouis et fais jouir, sans faire de mal ni à toi, ni à personne, voilà je crois, toute la morale.

German
Genießen und genießen lassen, ohne sich oder noch sonst jemandem zu schaden – das ist, denke ich, die ganze Moral.




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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.





All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.






It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.





Among moral qualities, true virtue alone is sublime.











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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.





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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