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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

— Nicolas Chamfort The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902)

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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a château does to its owner.

The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Maximes et anecdotes (1795)

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