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Best Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
- 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…
- Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
- Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
- What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they…
- Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of…
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle