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
France

Quote

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

Translation

(French)

La nature ne m'a point dit : Ne sois point pauvre ; encore moins : sois riche ; mais elle me crie : sois indépendant.”
Nicolas Chamfort

Quotes for: wealth:

I am rich in the goods that I can do without.”
Louis Vigée

wealth

The wise man is rich”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
Plato

wealth

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Aristotle

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth comes from virtue.”
Plato - Apology of Socrates

Quotes about poverty:

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”
Nelson Mandela

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.”
Henry David Thoreau

Abundance makes me poor.”
Publius Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses

poverty

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.”
George Bernard Shaw

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.”
Abbé Pierre

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
George Bernard Shaw

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Nicolas Chamfort also said...

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

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

happiness

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

society

Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect is worth more than renown, and honor is worth more than fame.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

value

One cannot imagine how much wit is necessary in order never to seem ridiculous.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

mind

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