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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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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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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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