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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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He who leaves the game wins it.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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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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Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
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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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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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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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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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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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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
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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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