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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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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.
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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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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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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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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
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