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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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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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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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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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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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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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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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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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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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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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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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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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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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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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
Nicolas Chamfort
Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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