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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
Journalist
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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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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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
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