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• Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

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  Women, Thinking, Evil

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

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• A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

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  Horse, Scandal, Fool

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• An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

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  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Economics

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• Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

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  Character, Men, Enjoy

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• Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

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  Vanity, Tongue, Egotism

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• Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

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  Mind, Together, Narrow Minds

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• To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

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  Names, Long, Way

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• There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

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  Fool, Trifles, Wells

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• Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

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  Honor, Selfishness, Feeding

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• The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

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  Pride, Vanity, Differences

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• Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

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  Men, Oysters, Literature

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• Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

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  Running, House, Should

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

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• The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

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  Friends, Real, Eye

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

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• Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

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  Real, Everyday, Literature

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• The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

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  Vanity, Littles, Sells

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

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• What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

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  Love, Heart, Long

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• Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

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  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1796). “Maximes, pensées, caractères et anecdotes: précédés d'une notice sur sa vie”, p.34

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• How many fools does it take to make up a public?

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  Doe, Fool

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• In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

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  Art, Fine, Wells

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• It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

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  Art, Successful, Bored

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• In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

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  Men, Littles, Matter

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• Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

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  Oysters, Firsts, Eating

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• Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

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  People, Literature, Fame

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• Slander is the balm of malignity.

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  Slander

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• All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

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  Passion, Exaggerated

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

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