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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)
“Conviction is the conscience of intellect.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.”
—Indian proverb, quoted in Sébastien-roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations, vol. 1, no. 155 (1796, trans. 1926)
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