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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Replaces by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I once read that there's nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that's lasted too long. I've also heard that God is eternal (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
High society is a poor play, a bad, boring opera, made slightly better by its staging, costumes and scenery (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
The only thing that stops God sending a second flood is that the first one was useless (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
What is responsible for the success of many works is the rapport between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and the mediocrity of the public's (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: They begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must also have his staff (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four fifths of the inhabitants die of grief (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror like in the instant power of reflection (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
The success of many works is found in the relation between the mediocrity of the authors' ideas and that of the ideas of the public (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack horses setting out to gallop (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people; the history of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection of anecdotes (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Obscurity and innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Woman’s weakness, not man’s merit, oftenest gains the suitor’s victory (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)