Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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The most destructive criticism is indifference.
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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
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There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
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For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
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There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
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Love may turn to indifference with possession.
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
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Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
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Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.
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Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
