Nicolas Chamfort Quotes - Page 4

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• In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

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  Life, Heart, Men

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• Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

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  Play, Pirate, Pockets

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

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• A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

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  Inspirational, Failure, Intelligent

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• One must not hope to be more than one can be.

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  Acceptance, Literature

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• We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

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  Color, Society, Chameleon

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• Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

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  Temptation, Armor, Obscurity

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• Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

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  Friendship

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• Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

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  Funny, Reading, Book

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• Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

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  Heart, World, Break

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• People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

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  Kindness, Heart, People

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• Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

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  Thinking, Water, Rose

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• There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

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  Expression, Hands, Feet

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• In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

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  Country, Attention, Strive

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• At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

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  Men, Sight, Laughing

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• It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

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  Opinion, Dare, Fishes

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

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• A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

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  Horse, Scandal, Fool

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• Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

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  Women, Thinking, Evil

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

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• A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

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  Love, Men, Trying

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• An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

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  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Economics

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• Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

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  Character, Men, Enjoy

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• Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

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  Vanity, Tongue, Egotism

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• Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

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  Mind, Together, Narrow Minds

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• Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

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  Perfection, Faults, Rivalry

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• To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

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  Names, Long, Way

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• There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

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  Fool, Trifles, Wells

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