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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.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
Nicolas Chamfort
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
Nicolas Chamfort
He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
Nicolas Chamfort
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas Chamfort
All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicolas Chamfort
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Nicolas Chamfort
Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
Nicolas Chamfort
Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
Nicolas Chamfort
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
Nicolas Chamfort
