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Chamfort Quotes

«I would say of metaphysicians what Scaliger said of the Basques: they are said to understand each other, but I do not believe it»
Author: Chamfort
«The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public»
Author: Chamfort | About: Books | Keywords: affinity, due to, The Author
«The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: All days
«It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: aid, commonly, pleasing
«Love, in present-day society, is just the exchange of two imaginary pictures, and the contact of one epidermis with another.»
«Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: preoccupation
«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.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: amused, Heraclitus, misanthropic
«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 thought.»
Author: Chamfort
«Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: fifths, gaieties
«Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: collections, epigram, oysters, verse

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