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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#find #get #injustices #life #men

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplative #less #life #live #miserable

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#before #entirely #happily #live #must

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#emblem #everyday #form #interpreter #real

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#first #flood #god #only #sending

By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store. ↗

— Taylor Mali

#future #students #teachers #education

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

#cry #did #her #independent #less

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cures #few #good #hardly #like

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#laughed #most #wasted #which