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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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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As the applicant pool grows, the exact place to draw the line between looking and leaping settles to 37% of the pool, yielding the 37% Rule: look at the first 37% of the applicants, choosing none, then be ready to leap for anyone better than all those you’ve seen so far.
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Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
