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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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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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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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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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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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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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