Nicolas Chamfort Quotes - Page 4

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• Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

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  Fashion, Vanity, Literature

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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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• Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

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  Vanity, Names, Giving

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

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• A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

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  Inspirational, Failure, Intelligent

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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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  Book, Reflection, Results

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• Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

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  Deceiving, Lost, Charlatans

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

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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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• 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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• At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

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  Men, Sight, Laughing

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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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• People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

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  Heart, People, Littles

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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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• The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

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  Passion, Philosopher, Chemist

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

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

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  Friendship

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

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  Ridiculous, Wit

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• Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

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  Thinking, Water, Rose

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• Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

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  Heart, World, Break

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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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• People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

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  Kindness, Heart, People

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• In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

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  Country, Attention, Strive

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• There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

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  Expression, Hands, Feet

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• A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

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  Love, Men, Trying

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• 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.

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  Opinion, Dare, Fishes

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

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