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• Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

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  Love Is, Reason, Amusing

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1973). “Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc”

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• It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

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  Passion, Past, Men

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

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  Writing, Expression, Obscure

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

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  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

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  Merit, Deference, Esteem

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• Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

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  Funny, Humor, Law

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• The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

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  Attitude, Philosophical, Sarcasm

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

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  Women, Shadow, Like You

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• Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

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  History, Horror, Whole

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• I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

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  Love, Funny, Friendship

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

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  Happiness, Reality, May

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• To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

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  Giving, Morality, Injury

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

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  Death, Sleep, Relief

  'Maximes et Pensèes' (1796) ch. 2

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• Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

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  Children, Perfect, Wife

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• One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

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  Ideas, Majority, Able

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• Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

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  Belief, Conviction, Intellect

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• Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

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  Funny, Class, Two

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

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  Generosity, Ruffles, Needs

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• Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

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  Public Opinion, Opinion, Worst

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1973). “Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc”

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• Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

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  Victory, Spurs, Way

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• 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.

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  Soul, World, This World

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• Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

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  Class, Needs, Rich

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

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  Passion, Men, Lasts

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• When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

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  Love, Husband, Passion

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• Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

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  Life And Death, Giving, Tragedy

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