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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.


Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
CHAMFORT Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than li...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good gene...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Success makes success, like money makes money.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for se...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT How many fools does it take to make up a public?
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who ...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he h...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best o...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Pa...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but t...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and tru...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The reme...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Without goals, your success is simply an illusion, it will not come to reality
SUNDAY ADELAJA Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.
ANONYMOUS Happiness must come first! only then can you have the partner of your dreams
NICK KINSELLA Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and ...
C.S. LEWIS People can come and they may not have 500 varieties to choose from but they may have 300.
DICK PORTER I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimate...
PARKER PALMER Happiness is not a destination. It cannot be bought, sold or traded. Happiness is the gift of the jo...
LISA CYPERS KAMEN Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
ANDREI PLATONOV The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Support can come from many, but growth is only achieved by the individual.
TYCONIS D. ALLISON TY Spent the whole day Understanding the Aesthetics of Illusion.., travelling far from the reality..., ...
VEERA KARTHIK GONAGUNDLA Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not hap...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not h...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Happiness does not come from having much, but from being content, even when you have little.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
HELEN KELLER realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
RICKY WILLIAMS Where the money come, the happiness goes from…
MARIANA FULGER If the reality as said by the Albert Einstein is a persistent illusion, then to diagnose the psychia...
DR HITESH C SHETH Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to...
RASHEED OGUNLARU The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer.
LIONEL SUGGS Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
WILFERD A. PETERSON From birth to death man buys and sells the illusion of happiness...
MARIANA FULGER My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without strugg...
NICKI MINAJ Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
JUDITH GUEST Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've...
ROSS PEROT Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find th...
DEBRA CROWN LPC-S LCDC If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI Let the chips fall where they may and hopefully we could benefit from that. We have great kids here....
LARRY FINUCANE Regrettably this can only come with sacrifices from all key parties.
SHARON WENZL It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of ...
HELEN FIELDING I have learned that understanding will only come from accepting people's reality as they view it and...
DORINA CIOC Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Il...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
DAVID CRONENBERG Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
C.S. LEWIS Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enl...
RUDOLF STEINER The bulk of our applications come in from November to the end of January, but there are some that wi...
MICHAEL DICKSON Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after...
THEODORE RUBIN Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes aft...
THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after...
THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expe...
DALAI LAMA When life is an illusion, how can there be any reality?
DEBASISH MRIDHA Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
UNKNOWN Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ord...
FULTON JOHN SHEEN As long as they have air we are hopeful they can bring them out. They may not come out walking, but ...
GUADALUPE MEJIA They can make the wild ideas; we come up with a reality.
FRANK BENNETT It may have come from outside purchases, ... It may have originated in the plant, but we don't think...
JAMES HUDSON Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keep...
TOM ALTHOUSE Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexp...
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NICOLAS MARTIN It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
NICOLAS CAUSSIN I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling...
NICOLAS CAGE He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
NICOLAS BENTLEY I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it fester...
NICOLAS CAGE I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than...
NICOLAS CAGE We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
NICOLAS ROEG I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I c...
NICOLAS CAGE Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an a...
NICOLAS CAGE Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - ...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'How...
NICOLAS CAGE President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible...
NICOLAS MADURO I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid pl...
NICOLAS CAGE Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a co...
NICOLAS MADURO I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had ...
NICOLAS CAGE Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a ...
NICOLAS MADURO How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not...
NICOLAS CAGE Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a livi...
NICOLAS MADURO If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligenc...
NICOLAS CAGE Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like...
NICOLAS CAGE I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I st...
NICOLAS CAGE And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft o...
NICOLAS ROEG You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a hug...
NICOLAS ROEG I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and h...
NICOLAS ROEG I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't ...
NICOLAS ROEG The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scar...
NICOLAS CAGE I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood ...
NICOLAS CAGE I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we re...
NICOLAS MADURO The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribut...
NICOLAS MADURO I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
NICOLAS CAGE Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I ...
NICOLAS CAGE I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez...
NICOLAS MADURO You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Ob...
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