Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

  

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• I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

  

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• The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.

  

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• Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

  

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• No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

  

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• Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

  

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• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

  

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• Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.

  

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• I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.

  

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• “Pray firstly to be purified of passions, secondly to be freed from ignorance and forgetfulness, and thirdly to be delivered from all temptation and forsaking.”

  

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• We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

  

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• All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Passions
  • Exaggerate