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Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:

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

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


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Quote source: Maximes et pensées

Wikisource - Chamfort - Maximes et pensées (fr) 



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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas ri.

German
Der verlorenste aller Tage ist der, an dem man nicht gelacht hat.




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A day without laughter is a day wasted.




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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.





We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.





The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.





To laugh is proper to man.











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





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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