“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Success makes success, like money makes money.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Conviction is the conscience of the mind.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Illusion
