Nicolas Chamfort Quotes - Page 2

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• Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

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  Funny, Morning, Time

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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.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Character, Mean, Men

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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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• False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

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  Lying, Hypocrisy, Modesty

  "Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc".

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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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• I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

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  Love, Funny, Friendship

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• Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

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  Dog, Doe, Passing

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• Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

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  Happiness, Reality, May

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• One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

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  Ideas, Majority, Able

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• Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

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  War, Struggle, Eye

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• Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Merit, Deference, Esteem

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• A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ideas, Numbers, Mediocrity

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society". Book by Nicolas Chamfort, 1795.

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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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  Winning, Men, Play

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

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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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• Success makes success, like money makes money.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Success, Money, Making Money

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• Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

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  Funny, Class, Two

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

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• It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

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  Soul, World, This World

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• She commands who is blest with indifference.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Indifference, Command

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• And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

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  Suicide, Heart, Suicidal

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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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• 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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• We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

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  Color, Society, Chameleon

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• Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

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  History, Horror, Whole

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• Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

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  Funny, Humor, Law

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

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  Children, Perfect, Wife

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