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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Illusion
Pleasure
Happiness
Reality
May
Come

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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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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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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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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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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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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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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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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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