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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Ambition
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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.
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Authors & Writing
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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.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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City Life, Cities
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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris
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Education
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Experience
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
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Fame
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Fashion
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Fools, Foolishness
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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Friends
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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Goodness
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Ideas
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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.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
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Illusion
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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Independence
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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Intelligence
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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Justice
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Knowledge
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What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed.
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Laughter
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
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Law
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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Life
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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Loneliness
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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Love
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
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Manners
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No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
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Books by and about Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort