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Letter "C" » Chamfort Quotes
«I would say of metaphysicians what Scaliger said of the Basques: they are said to understand each other, but I do not believe it»
Author: Chamfort
«The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public»
«The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.»
«It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.»
«Love, in present-day society, is just the exchange of two imaginary pictures, and the contact of one epidermis with another.»
Author: Chamfort
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contact, epidermis, exchange, imaginary, pictures, present day, The Exchange
«Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.»
Author: Chamfort
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preoccupation
«At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.»
«An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.»
Author: Chamfort
«Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]»
«Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.»
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