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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1425/">Quotes by <em>Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De · Decency · 1 fans >>
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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De · Deeds and Good Deeds · 0 fans >>
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"Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists."

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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."

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"Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us."

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"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De · Fools and Foolishness · 0 fans >>
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"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De · Friends and Friendship · 2 fans >>
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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 is infinitely more successful."

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"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 soldiers."

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