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Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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There are also elegant nonsense just as there are well-dressed fools.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Society is divided into two great classes: those who have more food than appetite and those who have more appetite than food.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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The change of fashion is the tax that the industry of the poor imposes on the vanity of the rich.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Public opinion has been the worst of opinions for centuries.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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In big things, men show themselves as they want to be seen. In small things, as they are.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Often love, stormy commerce, ends in bankruptcy.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Love is more pleasing than marriage, because novels are more pleasing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Women give to friendship only what they cut from love.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Love is like contagious diseases, the more they are feared, the more easily they are acquired.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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In the world, there are three kinds of friends: those who love you, those who take care of you, and those who hate you.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Physical scourges and the calamities of human nature made society necessary. Society was added to the disasters of nature. The inconveniences of society made Government necessary, and Government was added to the disasters of society. This is the history of human nature.