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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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