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From Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
- The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
- Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
- Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
- There is a melancholy that stems from greatness
- 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…
- What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they…
- A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
- I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others…
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