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Famous Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
“Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“Be my brother or I will kill you.”
Source: Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues
“Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.”
“Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.”
Source: Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues
“In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.”
“Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.”
“Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.”
“Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally”