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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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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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He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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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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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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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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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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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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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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