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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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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
Nicolas Chamfort
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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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.
Nicolas Chamfort
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Nicolas Chamfort
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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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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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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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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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Nicolas Chamfort
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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