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.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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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.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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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.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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It is inconceivable how much w...
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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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.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Marriage follows on love as sm...
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Do not suppose opportunity wil...
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Spero Speroni explains admirab...
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. 'It is,' he says, 'because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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In the fine arts, as in many o...
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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If a woman were about to proce...
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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The best philosophical attitud...
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Most benefactors are like unsk...
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Conviction is the conscience o...
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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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!
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Someone has said that to plagi...
Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Society would be a charming af...
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Tis easier to make certain thi...
Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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The great always sell their so...
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Hope is but a charlatan that c...
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Stupidity would not be absolut...
Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
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