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

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

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

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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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

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