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Nicolas Chamfort

Quote of Nicolas Chamfort - Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a...


Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:

French writer.
Born: 1740 - Died: 1794
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a single prejudice, is a benefactor of mankind.


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Source: Discours sur l'influence des grands écrivains

Chamfort - Œuvres complètes (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Quiconque a détruit un préjugé, un seul préjugé, est un bienfaiteur du genre humain.

German
Wer ein Vorurteil, ein einziges Vorurteil, zerstört hat, ist ein Wohltäter der Menschheit.




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Quotes for: prejudice


Quotes

Quotes about prejudice:


It is never too late to give up our prejudices.





A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.





A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.





Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.





A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work.





Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.











Quotes

Nicolas Chamfort also said...


Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.





Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.





Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.





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












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