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Nature in causing reason and t...

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 60 quotes

How many fools does it take to...

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

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We gild our medicines with swe...

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 60 quotes

Were a man to consult only his...

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 60 quotes

Society ... is nothing more th...

Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

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Man reaches each stage of his ...

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

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Public opinion reigns in socie...

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 60 quotes

I only study the things I like...

I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.

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False modesty is the most dece...

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

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Do you think that revolutions ...

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

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Every woman in choosing a love...

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

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The new friends whom we make a...

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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It is inconceivable how much w...

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

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Vain is equivalent to empty; t...

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.

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Thought consoles us for all, a...

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.

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Nearly all men are slaves for ...

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, 'No.' To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

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In order to forgive reason for...

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

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Someone described Providence a...

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

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There is no history worthy att...

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.

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In the library of the world me...

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.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....