Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.

  

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• Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

  

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• I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

  

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

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• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

  

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• Well, I can't figure out God.

  

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• There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

  

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• For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

  

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• The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.

  

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• Like your booty don't stink.

  

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• I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing.

  

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  

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• It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

  

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• Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

  

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• If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

  

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• Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

  

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• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

  

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• Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
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• 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

  

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• Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

  

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• Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Vanity
  • Tongue
  • Egotism