Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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I'll fucking beat the fuck out of you.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'
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The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
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Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.
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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
