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Famous Quotes By Nicholas Chamfort

 

Famous quotes made by the French writer, Nicholas Chamfort. He was born in 1741 and died in 1794.

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A beautiful woman is paradise for the eyes, hell for the soul, and purgatory for the purse.


'Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.


The loves of some people are but the result of good suppers.


In France we leave unmolested those who set fire to the house, and persecute those who sound the alarm.


One would risk being disgusted if one saw politics, justice, and one's dinner in the making.


Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich.


A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.


The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests - a gold mine.


A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.


The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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