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Nicolas Chamfort, born on April 6, 1741, and died on April 13, 1794, was a prominent French writer and poet of the 18th century, known for his unique literary style and profound thoughts.

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“All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.”

Passion Exaggerated

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.”

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Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.”

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Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.”

Passion Philosopher Chemist Furnaces

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.”

Men Lasts Passion Mankind

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“It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.”

Men Lasts Passion

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“When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.”

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Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.”

Passion Exaggeration Exaggeration Is

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“Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.”

Men Reason Passion

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About the Author

Born: April 6, 1741
Died: April 13, 1794
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 177

Books & Sources

The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de ChamfortRelated source material

Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical DialoguesRelated source material

Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etcRelated source material

Maximes, pensées, caractères et anecdotes: précédés d'une notice sur sa vieRelated source material

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