Nicolas Chamfort Quotes - Page 3

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• And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Suicide, Heart, Suicidal

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Maximes et pensees (1825)

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• Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

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  Ambition, Stupidity, Serious

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society". Book by Nicolas Chamfort, 1795.

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• Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

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  Stupidity, Absolutes

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

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• A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ideas, Numbers, Mediocrity

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society". Book by Nicolas Chamfort, 1795.

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• Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Life, Sleep, Sixteen

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• Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

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  Women, Way, Lovers

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

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• Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

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  Fashion, Vanity, Literature

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• Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

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  Marriage

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• She commands who is blest with indifference.

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  Indifference, Command

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• Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

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  Nature, Money, Tests

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• Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

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  Love You, Love Is, Two

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• Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Calumny Is, Worry, Trying

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• There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

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  Evil, Giving, Down And

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

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• Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

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  Men, Small Changes, Society

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• It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Gossip, Looks

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• Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

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  Stupid, Public Opinion, Reign

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society: Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues".

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• Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

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  Marriage, Son, Men

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• He who leaves the game wins it.

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  Winning, Games

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

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• A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

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  Intelligent, Men, Ideas

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• A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

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  Nature, Kindness, Men

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• Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

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  War, Struggle, Eye

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• Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

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  People, Contempt, Contemptuous

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• Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

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  Winning, Men, Play

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

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• It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ridiculous, Wit

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