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Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourdeur le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.
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Tout bonheur est un chef-d'½uvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre he  sitation l'alte'  re, la moindre lourdeur le de  pare, la moindre sottise l'abe"  tit. Happiness is always a work of art: the least fault distorts it, the least hesitation changes it, a little dullnessspoilsit, the smallest foolish act makes it idiotic.

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— 1951Me  moires d'Hadrien.

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Il y a à parier que toute idée publique, toute convention reçue, est une sottise, car elle a convenu au plus grand nombre.

nicolas chamfort

— Maximes et Pensées, #130It is safe to wager that every public idea and every accepted convention is sheer foolishness, because it has suited the majority.Maxims and Considerations, #130

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Amour, folie aimable; ambition, sottise sérieuse.

nicolas chamfort

— Maximes et Pensées, #158Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.Maxims and Considerations, #158

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Que ne sait-il choisir ses gens? La marche ordinaire du XIXe siècle est que, quand un être puissant et noble rencontre un homme de cœur, il le tue, l'exile, l'emprisonne ou l'humilie tellement, que l'autre a la sottise d'en mourir de douleur.

stendhal

— Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
Vol. I, ch. XXIII

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