Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

  

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• If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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  • Enough
  • Laughter