Nicolas

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“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)