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• Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

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  Women, Way, Lovers

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

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  Life And Death, Giving, Tragedy

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• Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

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  Marriage, Son, Men

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• Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

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  Marriage

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• Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

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  Love You, Love Is, Two

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• Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

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  Children, Perfect, Wife

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• Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

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  Stupidity, Absolutes

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

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  Stupid, Public Opinion, Reign

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society: Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues".

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• Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

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  Public Opinion, Opinion, Worst

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1973). “Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc”

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• It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

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  Ridiculous, Wit

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• She commands who is blest with indifference.

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  Indifference, Command

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• There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

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  Evil, Giving, Down And

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

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  Men, Small Changes, Society

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• It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Gossip, Looks

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• He who leaves the game wins it.

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  Winning, Games

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1973). “Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc”

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• The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

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  Attitude, Philosophical, Sarcasm

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

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  Intelligent, Men, Ideas

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• We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

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  Generosity, Ruffles, Needs

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• A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

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  Nature, Kindness, Men

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• Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

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  Funny, Reading, Book

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• Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

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  People, Contempt, Contemptuous

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• One must not hope to be more than one can be.

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  Acceptance, Literature

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• Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

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  Friendship

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• Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

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  Temptation, Armor, Obscurity

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• In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

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  Life, Heart, Men

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