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• Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

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  Would Be, Affair, Charming

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

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• Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

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  Education, Self, Two

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

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• Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

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  Men, Oysters, Literature

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• The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

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  Pride, Vanity, Differences

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• Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

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  Honor, Selfishness, Feeding

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• Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

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  Running, House, Should

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

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• The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

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  Friends, Real, Eye

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

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• The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

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  Vanity, Littles, Sells

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

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• How many fools does it take to make up a public?

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  Doe, Fool

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• What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

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  Love, Heart, Long

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• Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

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  Real, Everyday, Literature

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

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  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1796). “Maximes, pensées, caractères et anecdotes: précédés d'une notice sur sa vie”, p.34

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• Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

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  Wisdom, Heart, Intelligence

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

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• Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

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  Vanity, Names, Giving

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

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• In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

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  Art, Fine, Wells

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• It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

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  Art, Successful, Bored

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• In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

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  Men, Littles, Matter

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• Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

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  Deceiving, Lost, Charlatans

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

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• Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

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  People, Literature, Fame

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• Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

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  Oysters, Firsts, Eating

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• Slander is the balm of malignity.

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  Slander

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• All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

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  Passion, Exaggerated

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

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• People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

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  Heart, People, Littles

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• If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

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  Perfect, Execution, Toilets

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• Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

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  Names, Doubt, Chance

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

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