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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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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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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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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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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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