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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
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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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.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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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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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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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.
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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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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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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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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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