Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.
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Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
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She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
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You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.
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I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
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Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
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Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.
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How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
