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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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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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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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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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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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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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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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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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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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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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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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