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One Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
- The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
- The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
- One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
- What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they…
- In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
- One must not hope to be more than one can be.
- There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
- The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
- Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
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