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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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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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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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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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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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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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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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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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