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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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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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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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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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