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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
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Politician
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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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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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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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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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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