220 Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort


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    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 slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

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    At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

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    In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

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