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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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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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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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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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