
Quote of Nicolas Chamfort - Nature never said to me: Do...
Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:
French writer.
Born: 1740 - Died: 1794
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1740 - Died: 1794
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France

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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(French, German)


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Quotes about nature:
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.



Quotes for: wealth
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.



Quotes about poverty:
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.


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