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Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t know, and who don’t know us (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author’s ideas and those of the public (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)
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 (Nicolas Chamfort Quotes)