Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le remede.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Sleep and death Sleep The human condition

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Nicolas Chamfort

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Maximes et Pensées

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Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Writer

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Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.

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Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

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Voltaire

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Voltaire
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Philosophical Dictionary
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Philosophical literature
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Voltaire. "Argent [Money]." Dictionnaire Philosophique [Philosophical Dictionary]. c. 1764.