Anecdotes Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

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“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”

Nicolas Chamfort

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Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

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Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored…

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How many fools does it take to make up a public?

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The poor are the blacks of Europe.

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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

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Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

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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…

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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

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Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

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