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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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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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Women of the world crave excitement.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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