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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
Nicolas Chamfort
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Nicolas Chamfort
We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Nicolas Chamfort
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
Nicolas Chamfort
We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
Nicolas Chamfort
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Nicolas Chamfort
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Nicolas Chamfort
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
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Nicolas Chamfort
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
Nicolas Chamfort
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
Nicolas Chamfort
