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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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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 justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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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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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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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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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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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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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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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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