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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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mort est le reméde.<br />

Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. <strong>The</strong><br />

remedy is death.<br />

‘Maximes et Pensèes’ (1796) ch. 2<br />

Des qualitès trop supèrieures rendent souvent un homme moins propre á la sociètè. On ne va<br />

pas au marchè avec des lingots; on y va avec de l’argent ou de la petite monnaie.<br />

Qualities too elevated <strong>of</strong>ten unfit a man for society. We don’t take ingots with us to market; we<br />

take silver or small change.<br />

‘Maximes et Pensèes’ (1796) ch. 3<br />

L’amour, tel qu’il existe dans la sociètè, n’est que l’èchange de deux fantaisies et le contact de<br />

deux èpidermes.<br />

Love, in the form in which it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange <strong>of</strong> two fantasies and<br />

the superficial contact <strong>of</strong> two bodies.<br />

‘Maximes et Pensèes’ (1796) ch. 6<br />

Je dirais volontiers des mètaphysiciens ce que Scaliger disait des Basques, on dit qu’ils<br />

s’entendent, mais je n’en crois rien.<br />

I am tempted to say <strong>of</strong> metaphysicians what Scaliger used to say <strong>of</strong> the Basques: they are said<br />

to understand one another, but I don’t believe a word <strong>of</strong> it.<br />

‘Maximes et Pensèes’ (1796) ch. 7<br />

Les pauvres sont les négres de l’Europe.<br />

<strong>The</strong> poor are Europe’s blacks.<br />

‘Maximes et Pensèes’ (1796) ch. 8<br />

Sois mon frére, ou je te tue.<br />

Be my brother, or I kill you.<br />

His interpretation <strong>of</strong> Fraternitè ou la mort Fraternity or death, in P. R.<br />

Anguis (ed.) ‘Oeuvres Complétes’ (1824) vol. 1 ‘Notice Historique sur la<br />

Vie et les Ècrits de Chamfort’.<br />

3.67 Harry Champion 1866-1942<br />

See Charles Collins, E. A. Sheppard, and Fred Terry (3.145)<br />

3.68 John Chandler 1806-76<br />

Conquering kings their titles take<br />

From the foes they captive make:<br />

Jesu, by a nobler deed,<br />

From the thousands He hath freed.<br />

‘Hymns Ancient and Modern’ (translated from Latin)<br />

3.69 Raymond Chandler 1888-1959

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