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Nicolas Chamfort Inspirational Quotes (117)

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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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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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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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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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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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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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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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[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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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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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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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.
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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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