Nicolas Chamfort Quotes - Page 7

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• Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

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  Passion, Loss, Men

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

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• Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

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  Knowledge, Capacity, Humans

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• Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

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  Men, Literature, May

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• There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

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  Greatness, Melancholy, Stem

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• It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

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  Lonely, Hate, Loneliness

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• Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

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  Secret, Taught, Secrecy

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• The contact of two epidermises.

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  Love, Two, Contact

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• Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

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  Self, Imperfection, Deny

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• An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

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  Art, Writing, Expression

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• Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

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  Easier, Certain

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• The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

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  Art, Secret, Literature

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• We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

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  Weakness

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• Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

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  Flames, Smoke

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

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• [Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

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  Men, Saving, He Man

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

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• In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

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  Absurdity, Subjects

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• If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

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  Confidence, Love You, Acceptance

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• Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

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  Wrinkles, Together, Made

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• There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

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  History, Anecdotes, Attention

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

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• The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

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  Passion, Philosopher, Chemist

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

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• The sunset glow of self-possession.

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  Sunset, Self, Possession

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• Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

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  Love Is, Epidemics, Disease

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• The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

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  Doctors, Gold, Cold

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• Chance is a nickname for Providence.

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  Nicknames, Chance, Providence

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• The poor are the blacks of Europe.

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  Europe, Poor

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• The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

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  Book, Giving, Majority

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

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