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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, thin

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort

Other quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Curmudgeonesque
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Nicolas Chamfort
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature
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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French

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Self-Discovery

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Self-Discovery

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893

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Self-Discovery

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. – Russell Lynes

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Self-Discovery

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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. Theres nothing to do but to stand there and take it. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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History

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. – Lucy Powell

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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. – Dean Acheson

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