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Man Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
- When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as…
- 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.
- A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of…
- Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
- 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.
- Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
- It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he…
- Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
- A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
- Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
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