Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Literature
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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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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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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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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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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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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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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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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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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