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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
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Literature
Society
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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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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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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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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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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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Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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