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Famous Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
“Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.”
“Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.”
“Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.”
“Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society”
“Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.”