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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
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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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicolas Chamfort
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
Nicolas Chamfort
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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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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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Nicolas Chamfort
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
Nicolas Chamfort
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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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
Nicolas Chamfort
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas Chamfort
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Nicolas Chamfort
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Nicolas Chamfort
