beautiful woman

calumny

celebrity

chance

class

covetousness

divorce

economist

exaggeration

excellence

exploitation

false modesty

fame

fashion

folly

France

life

living

love

Paris

passion

philosopher

public

quotation collection

remorse

revolution

satire

self-fulfilling prophecy

slander

society

success

wisdom

woman

nationality

French

occupation / innovator as

journalist

poet

politician

playwright

scientific organization

Académie Française

cause of death

suicide

innovator in the field of

philosophy

seat 6 of the Académie française

is a paradise for the eyes, a hell for the soul and a purgatory for the purse.

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

is like the wasp which worries you, and which it ih 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.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it ih 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.

is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent

is the advantage of being known by people who don't know you.

is composed of two great classes ' those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

composed of two great classes ' those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

is inseparable from the passions, and passions are passions only because they do exaggerate.

All passions exaggerate... and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. Nicolas Chamfort

is achieved by dozens of small skills perfected and fitted together. It is nothing extraordinary or superhuman.

chambliss, calling this 'the mundanity of excellence', writes, 'superb performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in any one of those actions: only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together, produced excellence' (Chambliss 1989:81).

False modesty is the most decent of al1 lies.

is the advantage of being known to those who do not know us.

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

is ubiquitous. There are more fools than wise men and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.

There are more fools than wise men and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.

is that place where it is always useful to expose your vices and always dangerous to expose your virtues.

is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours ; it is a S alliation; death is the remedy.

is a city of gaities and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.

Paris is a city of gaities and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. CHANCELIOP CHAMFORT, Nicolas (1741-1794)

 always exagerates. A is a passion only when it exaggerates.

is necessarily given to exaggeration. A passion is a passion only because it exaggerates.

All passions exaggerate... and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Do you think, then, that revolutions are made with rosewater'

is such that there are more fools than wise men and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.

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