Quotes by Chamfort

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate

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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the...

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Chance is a nickname of Providence

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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

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Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and...

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