Frasi di Nicolas Chamfort

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, noto come Chamfort , è stato uno scrittore e aforista francese.

✵ 6. Aprile 1741 – 13. Aprile 1794  •  Altri nomi Nicolas-Sébastien de Chamfort, Nicholas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort frasi celebri

“Bisogna riconoscere che, per essere felici in questo mondo, ci sono delle facoltà dell'anima che bisogna interamente paralizzare.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Origine: Citato in Guido Almansi, Il filosofo portatile, TEA, Milano, 1991.

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Nicolas Chamfort Frasi e Citazioni

“Le belle ragazze hanno un'infelicità comune ai re: non hanno amici e non se ne accorgono.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Origine: Citato in L'amore è tutto di Dino Basili, p. 26, Tascabili economici newton, Febbraio 1996

“La giornata più perduta è quella in cui non si è riso.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Massime e pensieri

“L'uomo si trova novizio a ogni età della vita.”

Nicolas Chamfort

da Caratteri e aneddoti, 1993
Caratteri e aneddoti

“Bisogna scegliere tra amare le donne e conoscerle: non c'è via di mezzo.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 118, p. 174.

“Nelle grandi cose gli uomini si mostrano come conviene loro di mostrarsi; nelle piccole, quali sono.”

Nicolas Chamfort

da Caratteri e aneddoti, 1988
Caratteri e aneddoti

Nicolas Chamfort: Frasi in inglese

“People are always annoyed by men of letters who retreat from the world; they expect them to continue to show interest in society even though they gain little benefit from it. They would like to force them be present when lots are being drawn in a lottery for which they have no tickets.”

Nicolas Chamfort

On se fâche souvent contre les Gens de Lettres qui se retirent du monde. On veut qu'ils prennent intérêt à la Société dont ils ne tirent presque point d'avantage. On veut les forcer d'assister éternellement aux tirages d'une loterie où ils n'ont point de billet.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #447
Reflections

“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”

Nicolas Chamfort

As quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37

“In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Les vieillards, dans les capitales, sont plus corrompus que les jeunes gens.
Maximes et Pensées, #585
Maxims and Considerations

“We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.”

Nicolas Chamfort

"Reflections and Anecdotes", nr. 264 (Douglas Parmée translation)

“Poverty puts crime at a discount.”

Nicolas Chamfort

La pauvreté met le crime au rabais.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312
Reflections; alternately translated as: "Poverty sets a reduced price on crime"; in The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962).

“Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.”

Nicolas Chamfort

On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #446
Reflections

“His nobility led him to take a few steps in the direction of fortune, and then to despise her.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Il avait, par grandeur d'âme, fait quelques pas vers la fortune, et par grandeur d'âme il la méprisa.
Maxims and Considerations, #548

“The public is governed as it reasons; its own prerogative is foolish speech and that of its governors is foolish action.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Le public est gouverné comme il raisonne. Son droit est de dire des sottises, comme celui des ministres est d'en faire.
Maximes et Pensées, #503

“Ask of all-healing, all-consoling thought
Salve and solace for the woe it wrought.”

Nicolas Chamfort

La pensée console de tout et remédie à tout. Si quelquefois elle vous fait du mal, demandez-lui le remède du mal qu'elle vous a fait, elle vous le donnera.
As translated by Samuel Beckett, in Samuel Beckett: Collected Poems 161-163.

“After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Les nouveaux amis que nous faisons après un certain âge, et par lesquels nous cherchons à remplacer ceux que nous avons perdus, sont à nos anciens amis ce que les yeux de verre, les dents postiches et les jambes de bois sont aux véritables yeux, aux dents naturelles et aux jambes de chair et d'os.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #303
Reflections

“What I admire in the ancient philosophers is their desire to make their lives conform to their writings, a trait which we notice in Plato, Theophrastus and many others. Practical morality was so truly their philosophy's essence that many, such as Xenocrates, Polemon, and Speusippus, were placed at the head of schools although they had written nothing at all. Socrates was none the less the foremost philosopher of his age, although he had not composed a single book or studied any other science than ethics.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Ce que j'admire dans les anciens philosophes, c'est le désir de conformer leurs mœurs à leurs écrits: c'est ce que l'on remarque dans Platon, Théophraste et plusieurs autres. La Morale pratique était si bien la partie essentielle de leur philosophie, que plusieurs furent mis à la tête des écoles, sans avoir rien écrit; tels que Xénocrate, Polémon, Heusippe, etc. Socrate, sans avoir donné un seul ouvrage et sans avoir étudié aucune autre science que la morale, n'en fut pas moins le premier philosophe de son siècle.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris : 1923), #448
Maxims and Considerations, #448

“There is something is common between literary, and above all theatrical, reputations and the fortunes which used of old to be made in the West Indies. In the early days it was almost sufficient to reach those islands to return with incalculable riches; but the very vastness of the fortunes thus obtained was prejudicial to those of the following generation, since the exhausted earth could yield no more.”

Nicolas Chamfort

Il en est un peu des réputations littéraires, et surtout des réputations de théâtre, comme des fortunes qu'on faisait autrefois dans les Iles. Il suffisait presque autrefois d'y passer, pour parvenir à une grande richesse, mais ces grandes fortunes mêmes ont nui à celles de la génération suivante: les terres épuisées n'ont plus rendu si abondamment.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #442
Maxims and Considerations, #442

“The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.”

Nicolas Chamfort

La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l&#x27;on n&#x27;a pas ri. <br class="br">Maximes et pensées (1805) <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">The days most wasted are those during which we have not laughed. <br class="br">A day without laughter is a day wasted. <br class="br">While many such expressions have become widely attributed to Charlie Chaplin and a few others, research done for &quot;A Day Without Laughter is a Day Wasted&quot; at Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/16/laughter-day/ indicate that such expressions date back to that of Chamfort, published in &quot;Historique, Politique et Litteraire, Maximes détachées extraites des manuscrits de Champfort&quot; Mercure Français (18 July 1795), p. 351 http://books.google.com/books?id=N3tBAAAAcAAJ&amp;q=%22pas+ri%22#v=snippet&amp;q=%22pas%20ri%22&amp;f=false Translations of this into English have been found as early as one in &quot;Laughing&quot; in Flowers of Literature (1803) by F. Prevost and F. Blagdon:<br>: I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it; but another has observed that “the most lost of all days, is that in which we have not laughed;” and, I must confess, that I feel myself greatly of his opinion.

“Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.”

Nicolas Chamfort

L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la société, n'est que l'échange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux épidermes.
Maximes et pensées (1805), nr. 359

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