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

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  Children, Perfect, Wife

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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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  Death, Sleep, Relief

  'Maximes et Pensèes' (1796) ch. 2

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• 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.

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  Writing, Expression, Obscure

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• Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

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  Funny, Humor, Law

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• Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

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  Life, Sleep, Sixteen

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• Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Maximes et pensees (1825)

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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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• A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

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  Women, Shadow, Like You

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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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• 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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  Love, Husband, Passion

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• Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

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  Ambition, Stupidity, Serious

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

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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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• Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

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  Calumny Is, Worry, Trying

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• Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

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  Belief, Conviction, Intellect

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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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• Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

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  Perfection, Faults, Rivalry

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• Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

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  Wisdom, Heart, Intelligence

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

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• Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

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  Would Be, Affair, Charming

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

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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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• 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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• Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

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  Nature, Money, Tests

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• Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

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  Victory, Spurs, Way

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• Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

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  Play, Pirate, Pockets

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

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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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