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Famous Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
“Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.”
“His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.”
“A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.”
“It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.”
“Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.”
“There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.”
“A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.”
“Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.”
“In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.”
“Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.”
“Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.”
“In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally”