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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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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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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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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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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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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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