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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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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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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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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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