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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.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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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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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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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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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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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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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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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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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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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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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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