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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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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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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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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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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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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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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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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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